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...grotesque fragments last week lay a venerable theory which sought to explain the most important chemical reaction on earth: photosynthesis. Theory-busters were a group of young biochemists, headed by Samuel Ruben, at the University of California. They have penetrated deeper than anyone so far into the mysterious process by which the sun's energy pouring earthward in the form of light is captured by chlorophyll and stored as carbohydrates, the basic food of animal life...
...from the sun, which agitate atoms in the upper air to the glow point. For a long time the spectrum lines corresponding to the auroral colors were called "forbidden lines'' because they could not be reproduced in the laboratory. Last week Drs. Joseph Kaplan and S. M. Ruben of U. C. L. A. told how they brought the auroral colors down to earth. They put gas molecules in a tube, stirred them up with a high-frequency discharge, then snapped off the current with extreme suddenness. The brief afterglow of the gases they caught in a spectroscope. They...
...cracking his ankle. George Washington Peter, a ring-tailed monkey, had to take out an A. F. R. A. union card so he could chatter monkey gibberish over a radio show called Little Old Hollywood. Chatter-chirping Louella Parsons discov ered that pretty Virginia Bruce (Mrs. J. Walter Ruben) was expecting a "little stranger" in six months...
This "spontaneous" reception originated in the fertile brain of Ruben Rabinovitz, press agent for the Folies, and everybody connected with the University who wanted a little publicity joined the mad procession...
Neither did anyone else, but the anti-Jewish handbills scattered by the mob were obviously not prepared by Mexicans. They were written in Castilian Spanish style, which few Mexicans use. They were signed by Ruben Moreno Padres, president of the Nationalist Vanguard, who boasted few months ago that his anti-Semitic activities had the support and the sympathy of the German Legation in Mexico City...