Word: conan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Promptly at six o'clock last evening the 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...
Omnibus (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). The Art of Murder, a homicide as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe. Rex Stout would variously present...
...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...
...hospital bed that can be raised and lowered from the floor by an electric motor. The apparatus will make it easier for the President to get in and out of bed when he is allowed to walk. Lieut. Knox read to him from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sir Nigel, one of Ike's favorite books. Mamie Eisenhower brought one message, from Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov, to Ike's attention: "I just now learned of your illness and received this news with the deepest feelings of sorrow. With all our hearts my family and I wish...
...Mother was"), went to Catholic grade and high school. When she was twelve, she heard a Jesuit speak on Indian missions and wanted to leave at once. Her parents managed to persuade her to wait. While she waited, she read (Mark Twain and Horatio Alger in public, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the sly), eventually went to work as bookkeeper for Shellenberger Inc. (candy manufacturers). Six years later, in 1914, she moved to the Remington Arms Co., Inc. as secretary to the chief of records. In a short time she was in charge of the company's special-service...