Word: ruben
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that I wish to belittle Dr. Ruben A. Stirton's zealous search for facts about the prehistoric diprotodon [TIME, July 20], but it seems to me that James Thurber discovered it first...
Name: diprotodon. Age: uncertain. Domicile: Australia. Physical characteristics: looks like a rhinoceros but has a pouch like a kangaroo. These are the vital specifications of one of the strangest prehistoric beasts known. Henceforth, thanks to Ruben A. Stirton, professor of paleontology at the University of California, scientists will learn a lot more about the diprotodon than the few fragmentary facts which, in the past, enabled them to put together only a vague sort of passport picture...
...Freshman Debate Council last night elected officers for the 1952-53 season. Those chosen were: Cliff F. Thompson, president; Robert M. O'Neil vice-president; George M. Fredrickson, treasurer; Elliott D. Wilder, home secretary; Norman D. Connon, corresponding secretary; and Ruben Gittes, public relations...
...comparatively compact City Center Theater, Stage Director José Ruben, veteran of both opera and Broadway (and once Sarah Bernhardt's leading man), made Manon move through all its five acts with proper sentiment and subtlety. In the pit, French Conductor Jean Morel kept the pace clean and precise. And the singing, French diction included, of City Opera's young Americans could hardly have been better...
...Loved I Not Honor More. In Managua, Nicaragua, Volunteer Fireman Ruben Arroliga heard an alarm while standing at the altar with his prospective bride, told her to wait for him, dashed off to help put out the fire...