Young man on the make in the Roaring Twenties

Discovery Notebook
More newspaper citations for Walter Ruby in the Catrow affair and as a boxing manager—but is it our Walter?
  • Nov 12, 2023

Assessing the evidence for Walter Ruby as a boxing manager and/or bootlegger.
Walter Ruby called "the gin king" in a 1934 advertisement
  • Nov 06, 2023

He cultivated an image as the witty, urbane man about town—the personification of his brand.
Caption
Modern street view of 671 W. 162nd Street
The Ruby family lived in Washington Heights in 1925
  • Feb 03, 2022

671 W. 162nd Street is the second building from the corner of Riverside Drive.
Another look at the Catrow conspiracy
  • Mar 08, 2018

It has been some years since I originally reported on this blog that my grandfather Walter Ruby…

Aborted visit to NY Public Library
  • Aug 08, 2007

I keep meaning to spend time researching microfilm of New York newspapers from the 1920s for…

Citations

Authors
Stanley L. Ruby(21) Chien-Shiung Wu(18) Emil Jan Konopinski(9) Brice M. Rustad(8) James S. Allen(7) Allan Franklin(7) Otto Kofoed-Hansen(4) R. P. Hudson(4) Leon Lidofsky(4) P. A. Flinn(4)
Subjects
beta decay theory(21) angular correlation(21) Rustad-Ruby experiment(17) mössbauer effect(17) beta spectrum experiment(14) Mössbauer spectroscopy(12) parity nonconservation(12) V–A theory(8) synchrotron radiation(8) conference/meeting(7)
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