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...success was terrific. "The new wench. By Jesus, but she's handsome!" cried the gallants. Guards Captain Rex Morgan was bowled over. "I'm fretting my bowels to fiddle-strings over you," he moaned. Amber "felt herself sliding toward surrender and had no inclination to stop." Captain Morgan rented rooms...
...Labor Day before reporting for Army induction. A month before, Red Sox pitching had suffered a body blow when the Navy claimed 18-game winner Tex Hughson. Although $65,000 had been promptly peeled off Owner Tom Yawkey's bulging bank roll for two Pacific Coast League pitchers, Rex Cecil and Clem Dreisewerd (who beat the Yankees in his debut), the experts still figured that lack of pitching would keep Boston among the also-rans...
...Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. The occasion was the publication of three new books about Holmes.* The publishers jointly sponsored the dinner. The guests were a Who's Who of crime fictioneers, included Frederic Dannay (coauthor, with Manfred Lee, of the "Ellery Queen" crime series), bearded Rex Stout (creator of orchidophilous Nero Wolfe), Christopher Morley (author of the theory that Sherlock Holmes was an American). Critic Clifton (Information Please) Fadiman, and General Motors Executive Edgar W. Smith, world's No. 1 nonliterary Sherlock Holmes enthusiast...
...Profile by Gaslight (Simon & Schuster: $2.75), edited by Edgar W. Smith, a collection of serious Holmesian studies and whimsies by 36 Holmes admirers, including the late Heywood Broun, Dorothy Sayers, Elmer Davis, Christopher Morley, Rex Stout; The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (Little, Brown: $2.50), edited by Ellery Queen, 33 Holmesian parodies by Doyle idolaters, from Mark Twain to Vincent Starrett; Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (Harcourt, Brace: $2), which reprints five famous Holmes stories, edited and copiously annotated by Christopher Morley...
Draft Jogger. In Idaho Falls, Idaho, 34-year-old Rex Wood still had twelve hours and 420 miles to go for his pre-induction physical- after snowshoeing five miles to reach a plane sent by his draft board and tramping all night to get gas when it was forced down...