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...Crimson's Harry Rich, competing in the second heat, took the 600 in 1:16.4, after Don Kirkland and Pitt's Vance Carter, the favorites, dawdled in the first heat. Harvey Brickman, a senior who came out last Wednesday, tied Panther Ed Sherlock for first in the high jump...
...adapting Richard Marsh's The Datchett Diamonds for the new classical mystery series, which he thought up. Kerr would like to do the historical plays of Shakespeare, in order, on consecutive nights, from King John to Henry VIII, is meanwhile having a rough time finding a Sherlock Holmes story for the mystery series because A. Conan Doyle's plots were so "simple-minded...
...pattern was contagious, and neither Poe nor his immediate successors seemed anxious to move it back to America. The first big geographical jump came in 1887, when Sir Arthur Conan Doyle brought him to London in the guise of Sherlock Holmes. Like Dupin, Holmes was an intellectual athlete, and socially he was a marvel of mobility, at home with scholars, society bluebloods, police inspectors. "Holmes," wrote Social Historian David Bazelon, "despite his eccentricities, is essentially an English gentleman acting to preserve a moral way of life." From Dickens' unfinished teaser, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, to the 20th century...
...currency cop of the world is a massively built man (6 ft. 1 in., 220 lbs.) with the shoulders of a riot-squad member and the broad, ranging mind of Sherlock Holmes. His name: Per Jacobsson (pronounced yah-kub-son). His job: managing director of the International Monetary Fund. Jacobsson is an expert at pleading, cajoling, and onoccasion forcing nations to follow wise economic policies. Thanks to the Fund -and booming production in Europe -Jacobsson reported last week that "Europe's monetary troubles have been successfully overcome, from a whole series of emergencies, on to stability, to external convertibility...
...Soviet readers, Sherlock Holmes is a great fictional hero, and in the past 40-odd years the U.S.S.R.'s Ministry of Culture has grossed at least $3,000,000 in sales of the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Holmes. But neither Doyle nor his heirs ever got so much as a ruble out of the Soviet sales. A Moscow city court last year tossed out a $180,000 suit brought by Adrian Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur's only surviving son, as a claim for the pirating of his father's writing. Three judges...