Word: sherlock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kindly, he looks like a Quiz Kid grown into a Santa Claus-and that's about what he is. He was graduated from Tufts at 14 and got his Ph.D. from Harvard at 18. He speaks many languages; he loves detective stories and belongs to Boston's Sherlock Holmes club, "The Speckled Band." A mathematician by trade, he knows almost as much about physiology as he does about mathematics. It was his interest in the human nervous system that led him into the most extraordinary of his researches...
Left, somewhere along the Champs Elysées, by Nina Conan Doyle, daughter-in-law of Sherlock Holmes's creator: a jeweled brooch, shaped like a hand, with rubies on the fingernails and a sprinkling of diamond stars and emeralds. Nina-who used to be Georgian Princess Nina Mdivani-advertised her loss in the papers and let it go at that. "Even Sherlock Holmes would have told the police in such a case," mumbled Paris' police chief. "His daughter-in-law had better consult us if she wants her brooch back." (In 1935 Nina dropped $8,000 worth...
...When a doctor does go wrong," Sherlock Holmes once observed, "he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and knowledge...
...Bernard ("Spils") Spilsbury, who became known as Britain's modern Sherlock Holmes, showed what a doctor can do when he uses his nerve and knowledge to catch criminals. For nearly four decades, connoisseurs of real-life British murders could be sure that the case was really top-drawer when it included the appearance on the witness stand of tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Sir Bernard and his quiet acknowledgment: "I am the senior pathologist of the Home Office...
Miszlalcowice Mystery. So last week the world's statesmen (successors to Lecoq and Sherlock Holmes, rather than to Pitt and James Madison) were trying to unravel the real meaning of what happened when 17 men and a woman met at a hunting lodge in Miszlakowice, Poland, and there created a thing that Communists called the "Cominform" (meaning Communist Information Bureau) and which most of the rest of the world called the "New Comintern" or the "Little Comintern." To help them figure it out, the detective-statesmen had Dr. Watsons who were experts in everything from gamma rays to Lenin...