Word: sherlocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brought to U. S. listeners "by the makers of G. Washington Coffee'' last week was not the usual Sherlock Holmes program but a Christmas Eve broadcast of the Sistine Choir from Rome. Punctuated with buzzings, cracklings and discreet references to G. Washington Coffee, this first international broadcast of the famed choir was arranged last year by the personal representative of the company's President George Washington, devout Roman Catholic, at a reputed cost of $10,000. Though reception was poor, the broadcast pleased the Catholic public: the Sistine Choir is traditionally associated with the papacy...
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...with the morning's mail was an unstamped diplomatic note of the first importance from Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State. How did it get there? Not through the mail. It was not brought by the Papal Ambassador, for he had not called. Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, no Sherlock Holmes, shrugged: "An unseen messenger seems to have brought it?most unusual...
Visitors on opening day received from the two crimson-gowned flunkies of the Royal Academy imposing leaflets which announced many royal and titled Patrons of the exhibit. But only a second Sherlock Holmes would have spotted in the roster the name of the man who conceived of the exhibition, sold the idea to the Royal Academy and persuaded the tycoons of a half dozen countries to lend it their treasures: Arthur Upham Pope of San Mateo, Calif...
...bottom of a murder, forgery, theft case by glancing at a pane of glass, a parchment, a piece of poplar wood. If you are tired of new-fangled fiction-detective methods, if you still have a warm spot in your heart for the school of Sherlock Holmes, you will give Colonel Braxton your friendly attention. Otherwise do not bother...