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...LIFE OF SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (304 pp.)-John Dickson Carr-Harper...
Carr (an American who has spent most of his adult life in England) is the first biographer to get free access to Sir Arthur's huge stock of letters and manuscripts. Since Carr himself is a talented contriver of whodunits (as "Carter Dickson" he is also the creator of Detective Sir Henry Merrivale), mystery fans are likely to expect his Life to be first rate. They may be a little disappointed. The Life is highly valuable as the most definitive job to date, but some of its fine feast of facts has been spoiled by the way they have...
...jinx him, his benchmates made a point of not looking at him or speaking to him unless he asked them a question. ("Then I'd get a quick, choppy answer.") Their efforts paid off: Murry Dickson got the first one-man spring-training no-hitter in nine years...
...orange curtain that helped Dickson camouflage his curves was not much help to Big Bill ("Hard Luck") Bevens, the Yankee pitcher. Cardinal bats pounded Bevens for seven runs before he got them out in the first inning. Then Bill, who had lost a one-hitter in last fall's World Series, walked dejectedly to the bench...
...wasn't sure that he hadn't pitched his last ball; his arm ached badly. Said Murry Dickson sympathetically: "I had a sore arm in St. Pete back in 1940. The fellows asked me to go bowling, so I went . . . suddenly I felt a pricking pain in my forearm and elbow, but I kept bowling. When I finished the game, the pain was gone. I've never had a sore arm since...