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The 1955 BSI Dinner

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Irregulars and guests gathered for the Master’s 101st birthday. Robert Keith Leavitt served as Gasogene-pro-tempore in the regrettable absence of Christopher Morley. Earle F. Walbridge and Lew D. Feldman presented a learned summary of recent publications and scholarship on the Canon. Guy Cunningham and William Merritt screened the 1954 TV episode “The Red-Headed League,” starring Ronald Howard and Howard Marion-Crawford. 
 
Rex Stout shared an experience that, after spending all evening “around the festive board from which all but he and a visitor from Britain had been retired,” he had the privilege of listening to a “trenchant and searching exegesis” of the Canon…from Winston Churchill. 
 
Fourteen members received their Irregular Shilling.  Scion Society reports from around the world were presented to the assembled. Benjamin Clark of the Five Orange Pips of Westchester County presented the annual quiz.  Dr. Julian Wolff took first place. 
 
At midnight, Charles Honce proposed the toast: “To the Best and Wisest Man Whom We Have Ever Known!” Edgar W. Smith, in his capacity as Buttons-cum-Commisionaire, notes in the minutes that when he departed the festivities at 1am, twenty guests remained “who had not even then had enough – as none of us ever shall have enough – of Sherlock Holmes.” 
 
Dinner Details: January 7, 1955 
Cavanagh’s Restaurant, New York, NY 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
Click on the above photo to see a larger version of it, and maximize your browser window to see the most detail. 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1955-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1955 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Alvin E. Blomquist as Isadora Persano 
James H. Bready as The Disappearance of James Phillimore 
Anatole Chujoy as The Old Russian Woman 
Marquis of Donegall as The Manor House Case 
Don Hardenbrook as Huret, the Boulevard Assassin 
Rosser W. Hunter as The Singular Adventures of the Grice Patersons 
Edward Kilroe as The Sudden Death of Cardinal Tosca 
Arthur L. Levine as The Cutter Alicia 
William Passen as The Camberwell Poisoning Case 
W. T. Rabe as Colonel Warburton's Madness 
Otis R. Rice as The Paradol Chamber, changed to The Non-Conformist Clergyman 
Red (Walter W.) Smith as The Netherland-Sumatra Company 
Thomas A. Whelan as The Vatican Cameos 
H. B. Williams as Old Abrahams 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is an Investiture?</a> 
 
 
Two-Shilling Award: 
Not awarded until 1962. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Not identified; possibly none. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is The Woman honour?</a> 
 
"Stand with me here upon the terrace..." 
(as named at this Dinner, not their year of passing) 
None this year. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
Not awarded until 1959. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
 
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Reports on the Dinner</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:11354171?n=169">1955 BSI Dinner Minutes</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
 
The Baker Street Journal v5 n2 (April 1955) pp. 104-107.  (available in the eBSJ) 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:11354171?n=169">List of 1955 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1955-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1955 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
<h4>
Recordings</h4>
None available online at this time. 
 
 
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Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:11370677">1955 Dinner Menu</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Cover, interior, and back. Sequence 48-50 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/05/the-1954-bsi-dinner.html">1954 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/06/the-1956-bsi-dinner.html">the 1956 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
For an index to all BSI Dinners and photos, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/dinner-summary.html">BSI Dinner Summary list</a>. 
 
 
The BSI Archive is located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Archival material may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the Library. For links to a detailed finding aid and related information, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive at Harvard</a> page. 
 
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The 1955 BSI Dinner

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The 1954 BSI Dinner

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On the hallowed occasion of the 100th birthday of “that great and good man,” Sherlock Holmes, 65 members from all over the world gathered to pay tribute. Fletcher Pratt, BSI, stood in for Christopher Morley as Gasogene-cum-Tantalus. As befitted the consulting detective’s global reach, birthday greetings arrived from an array of localities: Boston, Chicago, Denmark, Holland, Iowa, London, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Paris, and Quebec, to enumerate but a few. 
 
Carl Anderson of the Sons of the Copper Beeches led a discussion on the short-lived run of Basil Rathbone’s Broadway play about Holmes, which ran for only three performances in October 1953. Scion society reports were presented. Richard W. Clarke of the Five Orange Pips of Westchester County presented a single-question quiz: “Who gave Sherlock Holmes a blue phial containing poison?” James Iraldi of the Musgrave Ritualists took first prize, a stock certificate of the Franco-Midland Hardware Company. 
 
Attendees were regaled with two vivid pieces of Sherlockian footage: a film of Silver Blaze Handicap at Aqueduct the previous August (plus a recording of the race with sportscaster Red Smith giving color) and a documentary produced by W.T. Rabe of the Amateur Mendicants of Detroit from his own honeymoon that recounted the Master’s 1891 flight from London to Meiringen, culminating in dramatic shots of the Reichenbach Falls. 
 
At 11pm, a necessary toast was raised to Christopher Morley, Founder of the Baker Street Irregulars. Learned papers and Canonical disputations held the floor for an hour, taking “a deeper, more searching, and more reverent course than has been evident in many a year...the presence of the Great Man was everywhere palpable.” 
 
As an adjunct to the momentous centenary, a poll had been conducted prior to the birthday dinner to determine the “10 Best “and “10 Least” of the stories. (Peruse the results and compare them with Arthur Conan Doyle’s own rankings put forth in the Strand Magazine in the April 1954 issue of the Baker Street Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 117-119.) 
 
At the stroke of midnight, the remaining assembled members raised a standing toast in silence: 
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“TO MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES!”</div>
 
Dinner Details: January 8, 1954 
Cavanaugh’s Restaurant, New York, NY 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
Click on the above photo to see a larger version of it, and maximize your browser window to see the most detail. 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1954-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1954 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
John V. L. Hogan as The Aluminium Crutch 
Leon S. Holstein as The Tired Captain 
Tony Montag as Vamberry, the Wine Merchant 
Robert R. Pattrick as The Politician, the Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant 
Remsen Ten Eyck Schenck as The Tarleton Murders 
A. Carson Simpson as The Conk-Singleton Forgery Case 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is an Investiture?</a> 
 
 
Two-Shilling Award: 
Not awarded until 1962. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Not identified; possibly none. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is The Woman honour?</a> 
 
"Stand with me here upon the terrace..." 
(as named at this Dinner, not their year of passing) 
Nigel Bruce (by Peter Greig) 
Rev. Howard Clemens (by Allen Robertson) 
Ivar Gunn (by the Marquis of Donegall) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
Not awarded until 1959. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
 
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Reports on the Dinner</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:11354171?n=159">1954 BSI Dinner Minutes</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
 
The Baker Street Journal v4 n2 (April 1954) pp. 113-119.  (available in the eBSJ) 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:11354171?n=159">List of 1954 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1954-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1954 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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Recordings</h4>
None available online at this time. 
 
 
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Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:11354172?n=91">1954 Dinner Announcement Memorandum</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
1 page.  2 copies. Sequence 91-92 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:11354172?n=95">Press Release about the 1954 Dinner</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
2 pages.  Sequence 95-96 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:11370676">1954 Dinner Menu</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Cover and interior. Sequence 45-46 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:11354173?n=47">Smith, Edgar W., “To Sherlock Holmes” </a>(digitized image at Harvard) 
A poem in English and Danish. 1 page. Sequence 47 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:11354171?n=162">Smith, Edgar W., "The Ten Best and the Ten Least"</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Results of a poll of the BSI about the stories.  2 pages. 2 copies. Sequence 162-163 and 167-168 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/05/the-1953-bsi-dinner.html">1953 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/05/the-1955-bsi-dinner.html">1955 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
For an index to all BSI Dinners and photos, see our<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/dinner-summary.html"> BSI Dinner Summary list.</a> 
 
 
The BSI Archive is located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Archival material may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the Library. For links to a detailed finding aid and related information, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html">BSI Archive at Harvard</a> page. 
 
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Page updated 5/13/15 by Andrew Solberg. 
This page last updated 3/30/19 by Randall Stock. 
 
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The 1954 BSI Dinner

On the hallowed occasion of the 100th birthday of “that great and good man,” Sherlock Holmes, 65 members from all over the world gathered...

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The 1953 BSI Dinner

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Sixty four members gathered to commemorate the 99th anniversary of the Master’s birth. Rex Stout, substituting for Christopher Morley, oversaw the proceedings as Gasogene-cum-Tantalus. Birthday messages were presented from scions in Akron, Ohio, Boston, Denmark, Holland, Ohio, Los Angeles, Paris, Rhode Island, and San Francisco, among other diverse locations. 
 
Earle F. Walbridge, BSI, updated the assembled on the unveiling of a plaque at the Criterion Bar in London under the coordinated efforts of the Baritsu Chapter and the Sherlock Holmes Society. Paul Gore-Booth of the Red Circle of Washington, D.C. and Robert G. Harris of the Amateur Mendicants of Detroit then described the successful efforts to install a plaque commemorating Sherlock and Watson’s first meeting in the laboratory of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. The Amateur Mendicants of Detroit presented a $100 check to initiate the necessary financing for this project. Edgar W. Smith, as Buttons-cum-Commissionaire, was empowered to proceed with the necessary next steps and to report on the project’s progress. 
 
The annual Five Orange Pips of Westchester County quiz was presented, under the direction of Owen P. Frisbie, BSI. Robert G. Harris of the Amateur Mendicants was the victor. 
 
The minutes note that the birthday dinner was adjourned with “a rising pledge to foregather again, in 1954, in celebration of the Centenary of the best and wisest of men.” 
 
Dinner Details: January 9, 1953 
Cavanaugh’s Restaurant, New York, NY 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
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<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1953-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1953 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
Stephen F. Crocker as The Norwood Builder 
Thayer Cumings as His Last Bow 
Baron Paul H. Gore-Booth as The Three Gables 
Milton C. Lang as The Abbey Grange 
Joe Palmer as Silver Blaze (posthumous) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is an Investiture?</a> 
 
 
Two-Shilling Award: 
Not awarded until 1962. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Not identified; possibly none. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is The Woman honour?</a> 
 
"Stand with me here upon the terrace..." 
(as named at this Dinner, not their year of passing) 
Howard Collins (by Fred Dannay) 
Judge Robert France (by Lloyd H. Denton) 
Fulton Oursler (by Fletcher Pratt) 
Joe Palmer (by Tom Stix) 
Ronald (Buck) Weaver (by Robert G. Harris) 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
Not awarded until 1959. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
 
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Reports on the Dinner</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:11354171?n=153">1953 BSI Dinner Minutes</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
 
The Baker Street Journal v3 n2 (April 1953) pp. 108-112.  (available in the eBSJ) 
Note: includes quiz from the dinner 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:11354171?n=153">List of 1953 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1953-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1953 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
<h4>
Recordings</h4>
None available online at this time. 
 
 
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Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:11354172?n=87">1953 Dinner Announcement Memorandum</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
1 page.  2 copies. Sequence 87-88. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:11370675">1953 Dinner Menu</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
1 Page. Sequence 44. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/05/the-1952-bsi-dinner.html">1952 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/05/the-1954-bsi-dinner.html">1954 BSI Dinner</a>. 
 
For an index to all BSI Dinners and photos, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/dinner-summary.html">BSI Dinner Summary</a> list. 
 
 
The BSI Archive is located at the Houghton Library at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Archival material may be used by any qualified scholar, subject to the normal rules and regulations of the Library. For links to a detailed finding aid and related information, see our<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/archive.html"> BSI Archive at Harvard</a> page. 
 
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Page updated 5/13/15 by Andrew Solberg 
This page last updated 3/23/19 by Randall Stock 
 
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The 1953 BSI Dinner

Sixty four members gathered to commemorate the 99th anniversary of the Master’s birth. Rex Stout, substituting for Christopher Morley, ove...

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The 1952 BSI Dinner

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Festivities commemorating the 98h anniversary of the Master’s birth—and inspired this year by Dr. John H. Watson’s 100th birthday—opened with dispatches from scion societies in diverse locations such as Boston, Cleveland, Denmark, England, and France. An “ominous and threatening” letter arrived from Professor James Moriarty at Rollins College in Orlando, Florida. Elmer Davis, serving as Gasogene-cum-Tantalus in Christopher Morley’s regrettable absence, introduced Mr. Sherlock Holmes Evans of Massilon, Ohio to attendees. Mr. Evans, unsurprisingly, regaled attendees with the experiences that “his baptismal name” has afforded him. 
 
Edgar W. Smith, in his capacity as Buttons-cum-Commisionaire, presented a paper on “Dr. Watson and the Great Censorship,” positing that the good doctor published his stories only when he believed Holmes was dead or had unequivocally retired. Mr. Green, a representative of the Parker Game Corporation, presented each attendee with a set of “Clue: the Great New Sherlock Holmes Game.” Play commenced, under the Acting-Gasogene’s oversight. 
 
Eight members were honored for achieving their Investiture.  After Scion Society reports were proffered, Owen P. Frisbie, of the Five Orange Pips of Westchester County, presented the annual quiz, “Twenty Knights with Sir Arthur.” Robert G. Harris of the Amateur Mendicants of Detroit was the victor. 
 
The festivities concluded on the “reminding note that 1954 will see the celebration of the Master’s own centennial.” 
 
Dinner Details: January 11, 1952 
Cavanaugh’s Restaurant, New York, NY 
 
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Dinner Photo Information</h4>
Click on the above photo to see a larger version of it, and maximize your browser window to see the most detail. 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1952-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1952 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
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BSI Honours List</h4>
Investitures: 
William S. Baring-Gould as The Gloria Scott 
Edward Bartlett as The Man with the Twisted Lip 
Lloyd H. Denton as The Noble Bachelor 
Robert G. Harris as The Creeping Man 
Richard H. Hoffman as The Beryl Coronet 
James C. Iraldi as The Blanched Soldier 
James Nelson as Lady Frances Carfax 
Morris Rosenblum as Petrus Atri (Black Peter), changed to The Greek Interpreter 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is an Investiture?</a> 
 
 
Two-Shilling Award: 
Not awarded until 1962. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is a Two-Shilling Award?</a> 
 
The Woman: 
Not identified; possibly none. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is The Woman honour?</a> 
 
"Stand with me here upon the terrace..." 
(as named at this Dinner, not their year of passing) 
None this year. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the origin of “standing on the terrace?”</a> 
 
Morley-Montgomery Award: 
Not awarded until 1959. 
<a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/glossary.html">What is the Morley-Montgomery Award?</a> 
 
 
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Reports on the Dinner</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:11354171?n=145">1952 BSI Dinner Minutes</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Note: the minutes repeat Anthony Boucher's investiture from 1949. 
 
The Baker Street Journal v2 n2 (April 1952) pp. 108-110.  (available in the eBSJ) 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:11354171?n=145">List of 1952 BSI Dinner Attendees</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
 
<a href="http://files.bsitrust.org/pdf/dinner/bsi-dinner-1952-photo-key.pdf">Key to People in the 1952 BSI Dinner photo</a> (PDF) 
 
 
<h4>
Recordings</h4>
None available online at this time. 
 
 
<h4>
Related Material</h4>
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:11354172?n=85">1952 Dinner Announcement Memorandum</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
1 page.  2 copies. Sequence 85-86. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:11370674">1952 Dinner Menu</a> (digitized image at Harvard) 
Cover, interior, and back. Sequence 41-43. 
 
<a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.HOUGH:11354171?n=151">Frisbie, Owen P., "Twenty Knights with Sir Arthur"</a> (digitized images at Harvard) 
Quiz given at dinner.  1 page plus answer key.   Sequence 151-152. 
 
Previous dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/04/the-1951-bsi-dinner.html">1951 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
Next dinner: the <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/05/the-1953-bsi-dinner.html">1953 BSI Dinner</a> 
 
For an index to all BSI Dinners and photos, see our <a href="http://www.bsitrust.org/2015/01/dinner-summary.html">BSI Dinner Summary list</a>. 
 
 
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Page composed on 1/28/15 by Tamar Zeffren. 
Page updated 5/6/15 by Randall Stock. 
This page last updated 1/9/19 by Randall Stock. 
 
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The 1952 BSI Dinner

Festivities commemorating the 98h anniversary of the Master’s birth—and inspired this year by Dr. John H. Watson’s 100th birthday—opened w...

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