Stan listed Wu as a reference in his Argonne employment application form
From Stan's CV files: "This degree was not received"
The rise and fall of the Army Specialized Training Program
The Ruby family lived in Washington Heights in 1925
Stan's training at Clemson is recorded in Army ASTP records
The experiment that went wrong—from Wu's perspective
Wu and her students—excerpts from Chapter 8 of the Chinese biography
Physics and family—the third rail of the experiment story
I’m reading a helpful book, Story Genius, by Lisa Cron, about narrative technique that I plan to write more about in the master blog. Here I will focus on Cron’s concept of any story’s “third rail,” the underlying problem that ties together the external plot points with the main characters’ beliefs and motivations, and thus electrifies the story.
in The Physics Experiment That Went Wrong story, I believe the third rail is the conflicting belief systems of Wu and Ruby over the appropriate balance between doing science with one’s family life.
Fire at the luggage store—one last item about the other Stanley Ruby
Before I turn the page for good on the doppelganger Stanley Ruby, I can't resist this tidbit about his father. I wanted to know where the family had come from and how it had come by the Ruby surname.
But let's start with that page of Ruby listings in the 1949 Manhattan phonebook that I posted a few days ago. There were two Stanley Rubys listed on adjacent lines, but a few lines above that we find two other interesting listings.
One is Samuel Ruby at 9 W. 18th St. and above that is S. Ruby Luggage Company also at 9 W. 18th St.