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This is certainly so in The Crucifer of Blood. The play is ostensibly about a nasty case solved by Sherlock Holmes (Paxton Whitehead) with his customarily occult intelligence - a fancifully distorted version of Conan Doyle's The Sign of the Four. What Crucifer is actually about is Holmes' study, a bibliophile's opulent dream, though Holmes is so busy shooting up cocaine that it is questionable whether he could lift a book. It is also about an opium den so suggestive of for bidden and abandoned pleasures that it might serve as ad copy for Yves Saint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Fogbound | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...Duncan Luce, Whitehead Professor of Psychology, said yesterday "election is recognition by one's peers and is very desired on the part of any scientist." Luce, who was elected to the academy in 1972 and currently chairs its Assembly on Behavioral and Social Sciences, added "it's a thrill when you get elected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Academy of Sciences Elects Three Faculty Members | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

...Warriors held a comfortable ten-point lead with 3:38 to go in regulation play, and looked like a sure bet to advance to the semifinals of the NCAA divisional championships, when a referee ejected Marquette's 6-ft., 10-in. center Jerome Whitehead from the game for a flagrant personal, a two-shot foul...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marquette Loses, Penn Stays Alive In NCAA Tourney | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

With Quaker defenseman Tom Whitehead off for hooking, freshman Bob McDonald notched a power-play goal at 14:44 to pull the Crimson within...

Author: By Bill Scheft, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Quakers Defrost Crimson Icemen, 4-3 | 2/18/1978 | See Source »

...chap who put an eye patch on the Hathaway shirt man and made Commander Whitehead a household beard consistently heeds the advice he has dispensed for decades. In the Confessions he warned never to be boring, and to repeat that previous campaign-the earlier book was intended to drum up business, and did-would thus be a sin. Blood, Brains and Beer also adheres to other cardinal principles of admaking: the straight story, smoothly told, sells stuff best; it is wrong to lie, but feel free to omit; humor should not be overdone (it is a bit too scarce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Advertisements For Himself | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

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