Word: sherlock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reading of Molly Bloom's sensuous soliloquy from James Joyce's Ulysses lacks both the virago drive and the Lilith languors of that Protean whore; Dame Peggy Ashcroft sounds too much the maidenly elocutionist for the passionate verses in her assorted Poetry Readings (London). London's Sherlock Holmes disk goes to the other extreme as three mighty hams-Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph Richardson. Orson Welles-rant and thunder through Dr. Watson Meets Sherlock Holmes and The Final Problem, in a tatter-tearing passion that would never have been tolerated at 221B Baker Street...
...second chapter of the famed Baker Street Irregulars held a quiet meeting at the Signet Society. The group, consisting mostly of professors, doctors, mystery writers and lawyers is named the Speckled Band, from one of Conan Doyle's stories. It meets annually to honor the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes...
Odyssey (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS). "The Baker Street Irregulars" celebrate Sherlock Holmes's birthday...
Precarious Profession. With no noticeable difficulties, the Egans breezed through nine categories-Great Art & Artists. Movies, Ancient History, Sherlock Holmes, Food & Cooking, Shakespeare, Spelling, Boxing & Jazz. They had made up their minds to quit as soon as they hit $16,000, but when they found that the $32,000 question would be on English literature-their specialty-they decided "we couldn't have 2? worth of self-respect...
...Joseph Bell of Edinburgh, the original Sherlock Holmes. As a medical student, Author Conan Doyle listened in awe as the astonishing Dr. Bell "would sit in his receiving room, with a face like a red Indian, and diagnose people as they came in before they even opened their mouths." Deduction, based on observation of trifles, was Bell's method. "Most men," he said drily, "have ... a head, two arms, a nose, a mouth." But only the weaver has a weaver's tooth (jagged from biting threads), only a peasant woman smoking a short-stemmed clay pipe...