Word: sherlock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...careers in religions work of all kinds, including institutional and missionary work, and the duties of a parish priest. Speakers at the meeting will be: The Reverend Charles W. Gilkey, Dean of the University of Chicago Chapel, Emeritus, and now at the Andover-Newton Theological School; Father Cornelius T. Sherlock, Diocesan Superintendent of Catholic Schools in Boston; and Rabbi Murico L. Zigmond, Director of B'nal B'rith Hillel Foundation...
...Bork was right, of course: only the man from Baker Street could have outsmarted the whole German Intelligence system. And readers of this new biography will feel not only that Arthur Conan Doyle was the one man who could have created Sherlock Holmes, but that Doyle's whole life made the creation inevitable. For, as Biographer Carr clearly shows, Doyle and Holmes were at heart one & the same person...
Stuffed with romantic dreams of knightly prowess, passionately devoted to guns, swords and murder stories, young Doyle entered Edinburgh University as a medical student in 1876. Here, he fell under the spell of the man without whom Sherlock Holmes would never have existed, Professor Joseph Bell. It was Bell's favorite trick (and later, Holmes's) to guess who and what any patient was without being told. "This man," he would declare, "is a left-handed cobbler . . . You'll obsairve, gentlemen, the worn places on the corduroy breeks where a cobbler rests his lapstone? The right-hand...
...short stories, a scientific method of crime detection based on the deduction-by-observation habits of Professor Bell. He sketched out a short novel called A Tangled Skein, involving a detective named Sherrinford Holmes and a narrator named Ormond Sacker. Finally, because it sounded better, he changed Sherrinford to Sherlock, and Ormond Sacker to the simpler name of Dr. John Watson. He changed the story's title to A Study in Scarlet. Publishers Ward, Locke & Co. bought it outright (for ?25) and published it in their Christmas annual...
...Sherlock Doyle. In 1903, he was obliged to revive Sherlock Holmes-and the scenes at the railway bookstalls, says a contemporary, "were worse than anything I ever saw at a bargain sale." He demonstrated his own detective brilliance when a colored clergyman was sentenced to seven years in jail for a crime that Doyle was convinced he had never committed. Using Holmes's own methods, Doyle tracked down the real criminal and vindicated the imprisoned parson...