Radio: Believers in Fur

Last week over a CBS network Robert Ripley reunited after 40 years a mother and her long-lost son. Having accomplished this minor miracle, Ripley changed the pace of his Believe It Or Not show, abandoned hearts & flowers to hold radio's first network fur auction. Purpose of the auction was to raise funds for four Norwegians who fled from their Nazi-controlled homeland last July in a 38-ft. pilot sloop, pulled into New York City 54 days later with no assets save their boat and a platina fox fur.

A mutation of silver fox, platina fox furs come as low as $300, as...

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