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BUTCHER BIRD - Reuben Davis - Little, Brown ($2.50). Tough black plantation stuff, showing what a good man's love will do to sublimate a hip-swinging cinnamon-colored wench into a fiction heroine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Feb. 17, 1936 | 2/17/1936 | See Source »

...President Grant returned to Salt Lake City after a second visit to Hawaii, during which he organized a new Mormon "stake" (ecclesiastical unit)- the Church's 114th and its first outside North America. When Heber J. Grant arrived in Honolulu with his trusty First Counselor, heavy-jowled Joshua Reuben Clark, onetime Ambassador to Mexico, the two potent churchmen were given a rousing native welcome, garlanded with lets (see cut). They toured the islands with a party including President Castle H. Murphy of the Hawaii L. D. S. Mission. At Laie they attended a luan, at which President Grant alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Stake No. 114 | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...Mineral Industries, writing in Science last week, "that our present knowledge ... of earthquakes does not permit any prediction of location and time of occurrence of a major earthquake with scientific precision." Meanwhile major quakes were occurring here & there over the globe and in Manhattan a young Jew named Reuben Greenspan seemed to be doing an astonishingly good job of calling them before they happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Quakes & Prophet | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...tidal theory is behind the method worked out by Reuben Greenspan. Last month he told a newshawk that a conjunction of the moon and the planet Jupiter seemed to indicate earth disturbances "in islands northeast of Australia" for July 11 and 12. Early last week he wrote letters to newspapers repeating this prophecy. When July 10 came round Krakatoa, a volcanic island with a dreadful record, between Java and Sumatra, suddenly started erupting at two-minute intervals, hurling lava spume a half-mile above the rim.* When he heard of this Prophet Greenspan cried: "Gosh, that's wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Quakes & Prophet | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...Palace of Fine Arts. Painters Pablo O'Higgins and David Alfaro Siqueiros persuaded the Michoacan University trustees to give this great opportunity to two young men one of whom had helped Siqueiros finish a fine fresco in the Workers' Cultural Center in Los Angeles two years before: Reuben Kadish, 21, and Philip Goldstein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: On a Mexican Wall | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

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