Word: sherlocking
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...there is anybody in detective fiction remotely comparable to England's Sherlock Holmes, it is Rex Stout's corpulent genius, Nero Wolfe. Like Holmes, Wolfe is coolly intellectual, fanatically thorough and precise, brilliantly epigrammatic; he is also a crotchety bachelor, gastronome, flower fancier and born actor. There is even a family resemblance between the two, considering Wolfe's physical likeness to Holmes' brother Mycroft...
...Fury. This farfetched theory of Wolfe's paternity is one of several learned but lighthearted speculations passed on by the late William S. Baring-Gould, who was creative director of TIME'S circulation and corporate education departments as well as a detective-novel buff. In his earlier Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street, Baring-Gould successfully employed the whimsical technique of treating a fictional character as a real person. The technique works as well in Nero Wolfe, largely because the character is such a rich...
...Boston's Lahey Clinic replied: "We're a bit more aggressive than Mayo's in cutting out silent stones." The difference stirred Florida Surgeon John J. Farrell, moderator of the Miami gallstone session, to cite an overseas situation at the University of London. There, Internist Sheila Sherlock is a leading opponent of surgery on silent stones, but Surgeon Rodney Smith, who operates on most of Dr. Sherlock's patients, is all for taking them out. "That," observed Moderator Farrell, "creates an interesting situation. I wonder how they live together...
...lecture tour, is a shy man with fine features and a soft, halting voice. And like Balthazar, he compensates for his shyness with a bold appearance, in this case, a scraggly Van Gogh kind of beard, heavy tweeds and knickers (augmented in foul weather by a cape and a Sherlock Holmes hat), and a walking stick. To all outward appearances, then, he seems like a turn-of-the-century product of the British Isles. In fact, he was born in Brooklyn of Irish parents...
Most Americans are not even sure what they want the police to police. "We ask our officers to be a combination of Bat Masterson, Sherlock Holmes, Sigmund Freud, King Solomon, Hercules and Diogenes," says Rocky Pomerance, Miami Beach police chief. Indeed, the U.S. often seems lucky to have any cops at all. Plato envisaged the policeman's lofty forebear as the "guardian" of law and order and placed him near the very top of his ideal society, endowing him with special wisdom, strength and patience. The U.S. has put its guardians near the bottom. In most places...