Believe It or Not (Second Series) #8

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Robert L. Ripley in Believe It or Not (Second Series) #8 (1932)

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueIn this entry to the documentary short series, a $5000 contest is revealed for fans. Robert Ripley presents to a well-dressed cocktail party an assortment of drawings and film clips: a 17-ye... Tout lireIn this entry to the documentary short series, a $5000 contest is revealed for fans. Robert Ripley presents to a well-dressed cocktail party an assortment of drawings and film clips: a 17-year-old grandmother in Africa, a French woman who left her fortune to buy clothing for snow... Tout lireIn this entry to the documentary short series, a $5000 contest is revealed for fans. Robert Ripley presents to a well-dressed cocktail party an assortment of drawings and film clips: a 17-year-old grandmother in Africa, a French woman who left her fortune to buy clothing for snowmen she believed to be dressed immodestly, one of the largest books in the world (a huge B... Tout lire

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- Alfred J. Goulding
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- Alfred J. Goulding
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Anecdotes
The steaming Oriental Tea Company's tea pot, according to a measurement taken in 1875, has a capacity of "227 gallons, 2 quarts, 1 pint, 3 gills", which is inscribed on the pot. (A gill is an antiquated form of liquid measurement, used to mean the equivalent of one-half cup.) Due to buildings being torn down, the pot has been moved several times and is now located outside of a Starbucks coffeehouse on Court Street.

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In the segment on the world's largest book, a bible, the announcer states the book contains 4,808 pages. Yet the page numbers at the top of the book, which appears to be open to around its middle, show over 6,160 pages, indicating the book must be well over 12,000 pages.

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Robert L. Ripley: Ladies and gentlemen, we take great pleasure in presenting the selected list of entries in the $5,000 Believe It or Not contest. However, before showing you these entries, I would like to make a few drawings suggested by the contestants.

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The Last Decent Episode in the Series

Believe It or Not (Second Series) #8 (1932)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Decent entry in the series has Ripley standing in front of a group of people and telling them that he's going to announce a $5,000 contest winner. Before that happens (it never does actually) he tells us some believe it or not stories, which includes the youngest parents in China who happen to be nine and eight years old. We then learn of a woman in Africa who gave birth to her daughter at the age of eight and then became a grandmother at the age of seventeen. We hear a few more stories including those of a couple 119-year-old men living in Missouri who have lived within a couple miles of one another their whole lives yet never met. Also on display is a trick dog who can climb up and down ladders as well as walk across wires. Overall this is a pretty good entry in the series as we get several interesting stories but I do wonder why they kicked it off telling of pre-ten-year-olds having sex and babies. I'm sure this was looked at differently in 1932 but it comes off rather disturbing today.