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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Holmes: Greatest Of
Literature's
Detectives
London.
The young doctor frowned at the blank Then he began to scribble
paper.
furiously.
"The terrified woman running to the cabman," he wrote in a bold hand. "The two going in search of a policeman. John Reeves had been
7 years in the force, John Reeves went back with them."
Ko; That wouldn't do, he thought, stroking his moustache, But the cabman iden was a good start. He reached for another piece of paper.
central
A
Who would be the
It came to him in a flash of characters of the intration.
time, Carefully
Dy this mystery. For several
Arthur Conan Doyle recorded minutes he was lost in
the ume-Sherlock Holmes. Bought. Then he wrote: Then he took a fresh sheet of "John II. Watson.**
paper and began to write, good name suggesting the burly and the merplace. He was his friend Dr James son wouldn't mind. Now for the detective hero, Tim name of his favourite poet, Oliver Wondel: Hones, como fo ton. Start with that,
com-
pathway winding through A deserted house; a yellow-
dripping garden, A corpse sare lying under the glow of a red- Wat-wax candle; the word "Revenge" written in blood on the wall. He called it "A Study Scarlet."
Shearioford Holmes? It was star, but unt quite right,
His eyes closed in coneralta- tin. A good Irish name would suit
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The pince: Southsea, The Gate: February, 1888.
A legend had begun,
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A hundred years after the
Arthur birth of Sir
Coman Dyle it is impossible to think of that great detective, Sherlock Kolmes,
anything 145
tut Alive in the vibrantly alive, Imagination; alive
stage, on radio, television and film; alive In all the clubs and associations thal today reverently perpetuate his memory.
Seventy three
for example, in "The Sign of the Four"
"Miss Moratan: "From that day to this no trord has been
of heard
mir unfortunate Jolker. He came home with his heart full of hope to find ronic peace, some comfort, and instead—“
She put her hand to her throat, and a choking sad cut short her utterance.
*"The date?” asked Holmes, opening his notebook....
П
Holmes's reputation was years have founded on his ability to brat passed since Holmes's creation, professional policemen Lo en 20 since Doyle's death. Yet etins solution. His was the Holmeg remains one of the art of deduction, of building up greatest-possibly the greatest staggering evidence from trifling
of all English literary Bgurest clues or even none at ali. ahetsehold name as ageless as Three times (in "A Case of the Sphinx.
Red-Headed Identity." The To Helmesian addiets, The langue
"The Noble and Master will never die.
Bachelor') he solved mysteries London, the Sherlock from his armchair. Holmes Society has published 13 In fact, Doyle says: "...He journals probing the minutest details of his life ("Sherlock machine."
was nothing but a calculating Holmes and the Press," "Chess. He pierced straight through and Holmes," etc.,) declares its the defalis of a case to its crucial alm to be "the pursuit of know- palat, then explained it to Dr ledge of the públic and private Watson with lives of Sherlock Holmes and obtiveness: Doctor Watson," and has just held a
In
rand dinner" լու "Sherlockian Rump" to celebrate the centenary of Doyle's birth.
"Real
Person"
In the United States, the Haker Street Irregulars-ze. name of a street gang Ina Holmes story-and the Speckled Band Club meet once a year und dedicate themselves new to his memory.
Holmes has another distinc- tion: be is the only fictitious character to have had serious biographies written about him. Who was Sherlock Holmes?..
Deduction
agonising
"Let me call your attention to the curious incident
of the dog in the night-time,"
Replied Watson: "The dog did fathing at all in the night-time
That TUNA the curious Incident."
→fLondon Express Service).
BIBLE THOUGHT
POR TODAY
Thy prayers and thine alms are coming up for a memorial before God-Acts 10:4
•The perfume-of-a-kind- deed will last as long us memory.
Press-Radio Bible Servior, The Cincinnati, Ohio,
AHome For Charles?
Heirless Lord Stanhope, of the greal" 18th century Whis family has donated bla
hame, magnificent Chevening Finco, near Bevenoaks, Kent, to the nation.
Ila final destiny is now In the hands of the Erime Minister, who may give i for the use of any Cabinet Minister, or set it aside as the a home for one of
which Royal Family—in case it may be used by the Prince of Wales when he
tumes of age, or possibly Princes Margaret, especially if she marries,
Lord Stanhope cherishes a lelier written by the late Lord Rosebery while stay- In the Ing at Chevening. letler-heading the name of the house is crossed out, and replaced by "Para- dino".
by
AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER By M, King Wood
Mr Basser Has Now Given £.5mToCharity
• BY THE⚫
WAY
By Beachcomber
THE
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story of the mouse which was recently placed Fin a cage with a python, and 19 claimed to have lamed 1, will bring a sarcastic amlig to the face of many a tiger.
Perhaps the python thunderstruck at seeing any- thing as small as a moise, like the clephant which rolled down an embankment In Afriču, pick- ed itself up, and saw firry feld-mouse staring at 12. "You're very small," said the elephant, "Very likely," said the mouno, "but I'm only two, and I've got topped growing yat."
Planning ahead
I
to
td dai wwe awe humanity to continue to feat bombs unf the nigment
Sydney. when the amount of fall-out in
effects, and enslan-
A smiling man went out to the University of Newarted to be having serious South Wales this week and passed over a gering the lives of those to cheque for £40,000 to the Chancellor, Drome. At that point a further Wurth.
The ·man was Mr Adolph to conquer the Blue Mountain, Basser t that £40,000 if the scheme is carried out. brought
To *the half-million The Blue Mountains" City mark the amounts which he Council is also talking" about a has given to churities in the large landscape gotten and Jast 40 years.
driveway at the top of the elift, Adolph Busser, a Pole by na- a music shell to seal 2,000 people, tionality, is a magpificent ad- amphitheatre overlooking the vertisement for what this valley and a luxury tourist hotel country can offer anybody who near the present main Jookout la prepared to work reasonably at the Leap. hard,
This would be not less than He came to Australle in 1808 50 luxury hotels which have from Poland where he trained been mentioned in the neck of as an optician.
the woods in the last 10 years.
His first years here saw him As yet not one of them has travelling through Now South materialised. Wales country towns supplying glasses for short-sighted cow- hands.
The busincas prospered. and in a few years he had enough
buy out money to tho well-known Bydney Jewellery Arm of Saunders. As the years went on
he bought up many small jewellery. Brms and today owns a chain of them.
Hc la a man with simple tastes and his only extravagance (which is not, really) is horse racing.
horses and races
He loves many of them.
duty will remain; to continue to make the bombs, until the tests can be started again. Mankind must not be permanently U- prived of the fruits of selence, (Speech for the defence.) Misunderstood
PSYCHIATRIST'S report on a man who stole a cur, knocked an old woman down und robbed her of her savings, knifed policeman, pole second car, tied up n night- walehman, and rifted a safe, says that he was not normal si the time.
a
A forceful plea
WHAT could be more ridicu- than lous, more useless, braces without buttonholes? The be-all and the end-all of braces One of the best known | is to establish, through the in-
with the
United,
sights in Sydney Harbour, sirumentality of buttonholes, an
contee! enduring the gaily painted Show- trousers. Each article of cloth- boat recently tied up ing is complementary to the while the company went other.
they stand, Ая into liquidation, for the Divided, the trousers fall.
for the plea that when braces. last three months has are left, as it were, in the alr remained at a Sydney trousers will dispense, with half Wharf costing some" £60 a dozen buttons,
it la mere
a week just to lle idle sophistry. By abolishing button- holas, braces destroy the sole (Maritime Services Bourd reason for their existence. They fees, night watchmen, become dublaus ornament, bo in fun. normal unkeep and so when they might
tional part of every rational forth).
man's dress. Let us hear more of this nonsense.
Itis best horse was Delta, which he bought for 2,080 · guineas and which won for Recently Showboat WAS hlm
more than £18,000 in auctioned and although it was.
Prize money. including Melbourne Cup,
Asked this' week about
stated by experts to cost at lenst
£400,000 to build today.
the his best that would be got by auctioneer was £8,000.
greatest thrill in life whethert was bought by a South firm and the story
Controversy rages DEAR SIR,
no
Mry Lensit quidently knows little of horses. Her suggestion that a man who rides a horse it was seeing Della thah pass
backwards should face the talt the post to win the Melbourne Australian
of the head shows a Cup or whether it was to make then going the rounds was that instead a good
was to be moved to the pitiful mliunderstanding of the burineas deal-Adolph BRSECT smiled and
whole thing. old his Spencer Gulf where it was to
To turn your back on the horse, as it were, greatest thrill was when it was run pleasure cruises.
la to lead it to surmise that you announced that the new
remain in the Sydney Harbour are no longer in command of the situation. Nor can you see as a boatal.
what is coming along in front, or rather, behind, you are facing the fall title going backwards.
residential college at the New South Wales University would be named the
Adolph Basser College,
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However, Showboat is now to
It is to be extensively modelled to include a restaurant, cabins and all the other necest ties of life to make it self- contained vessel.
It is not yet decided whether i will steam under its own whether it will be that the comic power or strip character Humphrey Ved up at a convenient point. Pennyworth cut into the
face. of 11 mighty It is rather remarkable that mountain the likeness of over the last 10 years or
clean one Joe Palooka, a living gentleman, who is one of the reigning heavy- weight champions of the world, together with Ben Boli and various other excellent people of comic strip life.
we
more
have been plending for overseas In- vestors to put their cash Into Australian Indus- tries.
In that period, hundreds have done so unt millions of over- BOLA money is now Invested in this country.
Now comes the cry that over- sens investors are getting con- trol of Australian industry.
Now the Blue Mountains City Council is supporting a cityman's Tholland, Burns, Malaya, Indo-cheme for a huge rock tableau esia, Australia, New Zealand, Fill, to be sculptured on the efur face It is just a matter of where Noon
of the famed Goveits Leap stone slops and the other begins. Ceylon.
India, Pakistan. Middle Blockheath. | East, Afflen," Greal” Denomi” Dirapy,
1 p.m.
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Formosa, khawo;~Korek-d-p/mu Thalland, Burma, India, o van.
India, Aden, Airies, Great Britain, Europe, d p.m.
Japan, 6 pm.
Howell, U.3.A.. 0 p.m.
„Minister----for: Trude.cHOMI MoEwcu, probably fit thỏ nall on the head when he said that
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The cliff face opposite the Leap lookout is 200 feet long band-abent-100-feet deep, thook down at least filmle
Sculptors would hew from the million we would have, been iy rock face hugo figures of ex- the middle of a minor' depres- plorers Illaxland, Wentworth sion If it had not been for the and Lawson, the first while men inflow of this foreign capital.
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Into conflict two fiercely opposed schools of thought. One describes him as "the revelation of Doyle." everything the debt-ridden young doctor. forced in 1880 to search for a
new means of livelihood, wanted to be himself. The other insists that the protolype of Holmes was the famous Edinburgh surgeon, Dr Joseph Bell (1837-1911) who taught Doyle at medical school. What sort of man was Holmes? We know that he wore on Inverness coat and a deerstalker KING's cap, that he had a weakness' for Turkish baths, that he took cocaine, that he smoked chug, which he kept in a Persian slip- per and offered elgars, which he kept in a coal scuttle; that, in moments of reflection, he played A violin,
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