Word: conan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grant came from an old Canta-Drigian named Frank Duerdin Perrott. When Perrott first made his offer in 1919 -at the start of the spiritualistic inquiries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-the university huffily said no; it suspected a hoax. In 1927-the year Perrott died-Cambridge relented. In the 24 years since...
...Illustrated London News did not rely on pictures alone: as succeeding Ingrams moved into the editorship, the work of such writers as Rudyard Kipling, James M. Barrie, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Arthur Conan Doyle, and G. K. Chesterton appeared in its pages. Soon after the present editor took over, at 23, he got a chance to show his mettle when Queen Victoria died. Only twelve hours after the bells of St. Paul's tolled the news, the News appeared with a special edition about the late Queen and the new King Edward VII. Two weeks later, Ingram stationed...
Before the publishing house of George Newnes Ltd., just off London's Strand, a hansom cab stopped and out stepped an elegant young man in top hat and frock coat. He was Arthur Conan Doyle, come to deliver the manuscript of a short story entitled A Scandal in Bohemia. Published in the six-month-old Strand magazine, in July 1891, the story's hero was a sleuth named Sherlock Holmes. He was an instant hit and so was the Strand...
...years, Conan Doyle wrote exclusively for the Strand, in a literary company that has seldom been equaled by any periodical. Shrewd, mustached Herbert Greenough Smith, the Strand's editor for four decades, gave his readers the best in Britain to provide "wholesome and harmless entertainment to hard-working people...
...even harder. When the Strand's traditional format and cover were discarded in favor of a pocket-sized, sophisticated approach, the magazine lost the last traits of its old character without developing a new one. Complained new Editor MacDonald Hastings, who took over in 1944: "Where are the Conan Doyles today, and where are the readers who want them anyway? What people want today is imaginative reporting; the day of fiction has gone...