Word: sherlocking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whenever Sherlock Holmes was worn out by a particularly baffling case, he gave himself a shot in the arm. In Chicago last week, the long arm of small-town law received a hypo in the form of a unique summer-school course-the Crime Seminar of Northwestern University's Law School...
...WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE-Leslie Hotson-Oxford University Press ($3). Leslie Hotson is the Sherlock Holmes of Elizabethan scholars who first uncovered the mystery of Marlowe's death (TIME, Oct. 16, 1933). In this book he reviews the career, family background and political connections of Thomas Russell, the overseer of Shakespeare's will, identifies the bard tenuously with groups of Catholic conspirators, but fails to catch him in any political activity. Result: a series of good thumbnail biographies of forgotten Elizabethans, throwing more light upon the turbulent times than on the tranquil poet...
...Newark, N. J. This week Dr. Martland is scheduled to deliver a popular lecture in Manhattan on the peculiar lore of his field. Remembering that the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was a doctor before he began writing detective fiction, Dr. Martland entitled his talk, "Dr. Watson and Mr. Sherlock Holmes...
...Lyme, Conn, the will of Actor William Gillette (Sherlock Holmes) was probated. Chief request was that the executors find an appreciative buyer for his castle and complete threemile, narrow-gauge railroad at Hadlyme. Wrote he: "I would consider it more than unfortunate for me should I find myself doomed after death to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind on this planet-to discover that the stone walls and towers and fireplaces of my home, founded at every point on the solid rock of Connecticut; that my railway line with its bridges, trestles, tunnels through solid rock . . . that...
Died. William Gillette, Sr. oldtime actor-playwright (Sherlock Holmes); of pulmonary hemorrhage; in Hartford, Conn...