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...N230099, which was used as evidence in the Alger Hiss trials, although no one seems to have been able to prove whether or not the Woodstock No. N230099 was in fact involved, and if so, or not, what it did, or did not do. In "A Case of Identity," Sherlock Holmes exposed the culprit by examining the faulty letters on typewritten notes. Holmes explained: "A typewriter has really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting." The word processor's criminal potential is probably infinite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Last Page in the Typewriter | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

...then did Braunwald and Kloner inform NIH officials about the incident in May. Investigations into Darsee's work were formally initiated by both Dean Tosteson and the NIH. Meanwhile, Braunwald and Kloner redoubled their efforts to unmask the fraud. Said Braunwald last week: "We began to think like Sherlock Holmes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fraud in a Harvard Lab | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes to figure out what Manton and Walker were after. They wanted money-lots of it-and they got it. Walker is now the highest paid football player in the world. The reports have varied, but the most reliable figures indicate that Walker signed a three-year contract for either $3.9 or $5 million...

Author: By Marco L. Quazzo, | Title: He Took the Money-And Ran | 2/25/1983 | See Source »

Just two plays later, though, Tony Ashman stopped in front of a K-Land receiver and intercepted a Bobby Sherlock pass. With the ball only eight yards from the goal line. Slack went back to work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Stops K-Land for Title, 14-8 | 11/24/1982 | See Source »

Both teams traded possession in the third stanza, and then, with seven minutes left in the game. K-Land scored its only points. On fourth down, with the ball at the Winthrop 23, Sherlock fell back to pass. Finding and open receivers, be rolled left and threw a desperation pass to Rollie Olvera. Unable to grasp the ball. Olvera tipped it to a wide-open Gordon Anderson in the end zone. The score became 14-8 when Sherlock found Dwayne Jones for the two-point conversion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Stops K-Land for Title, 14-8 | 11/24/1982 | See Source »

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