Radio mirror (May-Oct 1934)

RADIO M f RROR Ripley Says It's So (Continued from page 3?) lowers his hands with the palms down, he wants the musicians to play more softly. And so on. "The one law that the radio world knows is that regardless of what happens in the studio, the radio program must go on. That fact is responsible for a number of strange Believe-!t-OrNots in radio. "During a fire at NBC one summer, while the firemen chased through every room, the broadcasters ran right through their regular program. "Listen to this. Some years ago Billy Jones and Ernie Hare were singing when the S. S. Robert E. Lee sent out an SOS. When they were cut off the air they were singing 'Waiting for the Robert E. Lee'. "You see, it was the custom in the early days of radio to stop the program every thirty minutes to listen for a possible SOS or distress signal. "That reminds me of a rather ludicrous story. An opera singer who made her debut in the early days of radio finished her number with a series of high, blood-curdling shrieks. As her number ended, the announcer said, 'We will now stand by to listen for distress signals!' That opera singer could never be convinced that it was all a matter of custom and that the announcer had not meant to insult her." That's what Ripley's broadcasts are based on — the strange, the incredible, the unbelievable. [E has been called a liar more times than any other human being on earth. That includes even the Baron Munchausen. And when people call him a liar he is delighted. It means that he has succeeded in presenting some truth so fantastic that those who hear about it do not believe it. When he told the world that Lindbergh was the sixtyseventh man to make a non-stop flight over the Atlantic Ocean, three thousand people wrote in to tell him that Ananias had nothing on him. He has told radio listeners-in that Washington was not the first president of this country, that a day is forty-eight hours long, not twenty-four, that there is a flower which eats mice and fish which climb ■trees, that Methuselah died before his father and that Buffalo Bill never shot a bufi'alo in his life. Ripley began his career of gathering Believe1 t-Or-Nots by accident when ,he was a sports cartoonist on the old New York. Globe. One day he was un lable to think of a single idea for a car Itoon. He sharpened his pencil a dozen times, paced up and down in front of his desk, and still no ideas came. The deadline was approaching. He had to do something to fill space! Suddenly he thought of something. Why couldn't he write about some of the curious champs who were so proud of their strange records? For instance, there was J. M. 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