Word: sherlocking
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...North." In heavy-handed satire of "In the Land of Jim Crow" (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948), a series done by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Reporter Ray Sprigle after a tour of the South in the disguise of a Negro, Carter drawled that as a circulation-booster he had assigned one Sherlock ("Ol´ Fearless") Meriweather to do a series "In the Land of Grim Snow...
...every Sherlock Holmes fan knows, 221 B Baker Street is the great detective's London address. When a Press story in TIME'S June 20 issue disclosed that anybody could now get in touch with him there, mystery fans all over the world began to write...
...only communication that has stumped Editor Hall is a four and a half page letter written by an American entirely in code. Another, from a Missouri schoolboy, asked for Sherlock Holmes's help in apprehending a schoolmate suspected of filching goodies from his classmates' lunch boxes. Hall advised the boy to make sure of his facts before accusing a fellow human being, and told him to do as Holmes did: watch his man. There were other letters which began: "Bless your heart for letting me write a letter at last to 221 B Baker Street and know that...
...Chosen by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, when he began writing his Sherlock Holmes stories, because the Baker Street numbers then stopped short...
Senator Paul Douglas is justified in attacking the "pork barrel," but he picked a poor example. "Dramatically he whipped out a Sherlock Holmes magnifying glass and mockingly searched over a map of Maine for the Josias River, which was listed in the bill for a $33,000 dredging project. He couldn't find it" [TIME...