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Photograph is part of a feature story titled "Sherlock Holmes", in a section about the Baker Street Irregulars, a literary society located in New York City.
Caption reads as follows: These bearded "Baker Street Boys" rarely miss a dinner meeting of the Irregulars. Here Military Strategist Fletcher Pratt and Novelist Christopher Morley try to convince Author Rex Stout (right) that his theory that Dr. Watson was really a woman is completely wrong.
Herbert Gehr is credited as photographer on page 19.
This BSI dinner took place January 7, 1944, at the Murray Hill Hotel, 112 Park Avenue at East 40th Street, New York, NY. More infomation
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