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Interviewed on his 71st birthday. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, spiritualist, detective-story writer, testily told newshawks that Sherlock Holmes, his most famed character, was "definitely dead." "I've done with him," he said. "To tell the truth, I'm rather tired of hearing myself described as the author of Sherlock Holmes. One would think that I had written nothing but detective stories."* Asked if there was a prototype for his celebrated sleuth, said he: "Most certainly there was. He was an Edinburgh doctor under whom I studied. He had an uncanny gift of drawing large inferences from small...
...Another spiritualist development of last week was the resignation ol Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from the British Society for Psychical Research, after 36 years membership. Reason: the flaying, by Theodore Besterman. Secretary of the Society, of a book delineating wonders accomplished by an Italian medium...
Incensed. Sir Arthur retorted: ". . . [The work of the Society] is an evil influence-is anti-spiritualist." He called for other members to resign with him. Replied the Society: "There is nothing but an honest difference of opinion. While Sir Arthur regards spiritualism as a 'cult,' the Society was founded to carry on critical investigation...
...Joseph) Lodge, 78, white-bearded, hale, once famed for his researches in wireless telegraphy, for the last 20 years has been famed for his zeal, his optimism, in psychic investigations. He believes that his son Raymond, killed in the war, sent messages to him. Survivalist Lodge is not a Spiritualist ; he is a member of the Church of England: believes not differently from but more than his fellow members. He lives on Salisbury Plain, near Stonehenge, near Lady Mary Bailey, famed airwoman. Other books: Life and Matter, Raymond, or Life and Death, Ether and Reality, Evolution and Creation, Modern Scientific...