Word: sleuthing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Frederick Porter ("the Weasel") Wensley, 84, beak-nosed master sleuth, onetime head of Scotland Yard's famed C.I.D. (Criminal Investigation Department), who solved many of Britain's most famous crimes during his long (1887-1929) service; in London. No theorizing Hercule Poirot, Wensley served a rough & tumble apprenticeship in London's thug-infested East End during the Jack the Ripper era, wrote about it all in Forty Years of Scotland Yard...
...schools would no longer be liable to loss of their tax exemptions, the purpose and result of the measure remain the same. The important point is that the state would have the power to say who would teach and what should be taught in private educational institutions. A sleuth in a classroom is a threat to academic freedom whether he is compiling "evidence" against a school or an individual professor...
...Sleuth Root, though $25 richer, is still puzzled as to what the correct solution is. It appears as if either there is no true answer, or the Herald just isn't telling...
...Marcus Bach of the University of Iowa School of Religion calls himself a "religious sleuth." For 15 years (partly financed by a Rockefeller fellowship) he has been investigating the state of Protestantism in the U.S. Published this week is the result: an autobiographical Report to Protestants (Bobbs-Merrill, $3), which is well-timed for this month's big conference of churches at Amsterdam...
...Sleuth Finds Fingerprints...