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Title: Believe It Or Not (Notes)
Author : Thomas Wolfe Review
Release Date : January 01, 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
Size : 49 KB

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Robert L. Ripley always left it up to viewers and readers to decide if anything in his collection of oddities and unusual coincidences was actually true. David Strange, who provides the following three items for "Notes," also allows readers to decide for themselves--more or less. 1. North Carolina native Larry Edmunds operated a bookshop in Hollywood in the late 1930s. The shop is still in business and is something of a tourist attraction on Hollywood Boulevard, but Edmunds committed suicide in 1941 and was buried in Greensboro. At least one book--The Story of Hollywood: An Illustrated History (BL Press, 2006) by Gregory Paul Williams--claims that Edmunds was an "old friend of writer Thomas Wolfe in Asheville, North Carolina" (197). According to E. J. Fleming in The Fixers: Eddie Mannix, Howard Strickling, and the MGM Publicity Machine (McFarland, 2004),