A sports cartoonist who enjoyed the fascinating oddities, his curiosity grew to travel and outlandish individuals and stories. Starting in Chicago with an "Odditorium" exhibition at the World's Fair Ripley touched the pulse of the American common man - so successfully that he continued to prosper right through the Great Depression.
The result of his combined efforts and skills became an amazing story itself and the man failed at marriages, but lived a life with constant female companions and an entourage that would be the envy of any star.
I found it fascinating that a man who had the talent of cartooning, was a good baseball player and a handball ability ended up becoming a rich icon because he tapped in to the curiosity and craving for weird and unusual. He was Horatio Alger - the self made man, but his success came from the great energy he invested in all that he did and his love of world travel.
In the end story is itself a Believe it or Not tale and very enjoyable.
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