Robert Ripley’s Death – Cause and Date

The entrepreneur Robert Ripley died at the age of 58. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

World traveler and cartoonist who created the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! franchise.

He married Beatrice Roberts in 1919.

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Just to see him come on the stage was an event. They had very high risers, and back a little bit, so he’d walk around behind the risers and right across the front of the stage to the podium, remember?

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He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gosh, is he trying to stop the orchestra? Is it all wrong? It was just unbelievable.

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My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.

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My impression was, he’s walking as though he’s made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don’t know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective.