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Married. Ann Ruml, Vassar-educated daughter of Tax Economist Beardsley ("pay as you go") Ruml; and Lieut. Colonel (of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) John R. Innes Doyle, nephew of the late Sir Arthur Conan (Sherlock Holmes) Doyle; in the British embassy, Paris...
...harness nor altogether keep to the road. Tabori's scene is Budapest in 1930; his atmosphere that of an incipient police state; his chief characters a small boy (Brandon de Wilde) and his father (Lee J. Cobb). The boy inhabits a mental world swarming with such heroes as Sherlock Holmes, Hoot Gibson and the Scarlet pimpernel. But his chief hero is his father, a schoolmaster who has been blacklisted for unorthodox opinions, and who has lost his backbone along with...
A.C.D., as he pleases to be called, is the spawn of the man who created Sherlock Holmes, but where Holmes loved the world and its evils as a fit battleground for his mind, A.C.D. despises it. He set out to seek peace and returned with an account of a war that puts human efforts to shame--that of nature in the altogether...
Baker Street irregulars in Manhattan heard alarming news from London. The Sadlers Wells Company was presenting Sherlock Holmes in tights, with Dr. Watson dancing by his side to help thwart evil Professor Moriarty, in a ballet called The Great Detective. Such goings-on, rumbled the New York Herald Tribune in an editorial, are "nothing less than revolting . . . enough to outrage one's Victorian soul . . . We recall the prescient words of Sherlock Holmes himself: 'There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible...
Rhinelander is a tall man with sharply-cut features and a shock of reddish-brown hair that is fighting a losing battle with his bald spot. He sounds like Nigel Bruce, the radio Sherlock Holmes, except that he has a habit of emitting a short, high-pitched grunt when he speaks. Instead of doodling, students often tote up Rhinelander's grunts per minute in the margin beside their lecture notes...