Tingley's Tidbits -- Miscellaneous Wolfean odds 'n ends

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Tingley's Tidbits
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Who or What is a Tingley Tidbit? An explanation for the mystified is below.

	What kind of beer did Mr. Wolfe drink? In "Fer-De-Lance," Chapter 12, Wolfe says to Fritz - "Some port for Dr. Bradford. A bottle of the Remmers for me. Archie?" For a tee-shirt decal of the recreation of the Remmers beer from the A&E TV series, click here: Remmers Transfer (JPG format to print on transfer paper). The Bierbrauerei Wilhelm Remmer GmbH (HRB-Nr. 3411 AG Bremen) company (Beer Brewery) was founded in Bremen, Germany, in 1824. Following the end of World War I, when exports of German beer could resume and the government in Berlin called for the merging of local breweries, Beck & Co bought up local brewers, including Wilhelm Remmer GmbH. Thanks to Lutz-R for these Remmer Brewery and Remmer Alt Bier logos. Click any of the Remmer images to view an enlargement.	Beck's discontinued Remmer Light.

The Heron
As many of us know, there was never a Heron automobile. But a fan from Germany, Lutz-R ü diger Busse, has a credible theory on the origin of Mr. Stout's name. An early engineer from Alexandria, Heron, is credited with inventing the first steam powered automobile. More information can be found on Wikipedia. See Lutz-R's Gazette site (in German) for a LOT of Wolfean information.


CONTACT IS NOT A Verb ("Verbing the Noun") and other of Mr. Wolfe's English language issues ("Gambit -- Open Letter to Nero Wolfe"). Read Greg Smith's entertaining and etymologically correct articles by clicking these links.

Glenn Dixon's three terrific Wolfe pastiches can be downloaded free. Click here.

Nero Wolfe's Copernicus Connection Read The Chicago Tribune's report on Wolfe's involvement in the solving the mysterious theft of seven of the 260 surviving copies of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus' momentous 1543 book, "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium." By article by Robert G. Goldsborough.

Pfui or Phooey. Listen to these.

Maury Chaykin's pronunciation #1:
Maury Chaykin's pronunciation #2:
Sidney Greenstreet's pronunciation: (from the radio show, "The Party for Death"*)
Alex Avenarius pronunciation (from Bratislava, Slovakia)
Rex Stout's pronunciation:	coming soon

*In addition to tapes and a CD of the radio shows (see the links page),
you can listen free, online.

(Did you know that Pfui is a GERMAN word! See Lutz-R's Pfui page.)

Esquire Magazine, 1962, printed the following tour de force -- Jerry Lewis depicts Nero Wolfe, Nick Charles, Charlie Chan, and Mr. Moto, respecitively. Click a picture to view an enlargement.

HOW NERO WOLFE AFFECTED ONE LIFE

James Rock, Publisher of a number of books relating to Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe, was asked, "Is the corpus just a good read or do you consider that Wolfe and company have influenced your lives in a significant way? Did the books affect your attitudes, ideals or opinions -- and if so, to what degree? What did you take away with you." Following is his answer:

"I started reading Nero Wolfe in 1972-3, which led to having a friend, Michael Bourne, go out in April 1973 to interview Rex Stout for a little arts/literary magazine, "Hubris: A Gazette of the Arts" (now at http:www.hubris.cc). We were publishing off campus from our bookstore, which lead to starting book publishing in order to publish the Interview and a novella "Bitter End" in a book "Corsage: A Bouquet of Nero Wolfe and Rex Stout" which led to buying typesetting equipment which led to starting a prepublication service business for other publishers which led to developing techniques for interfacing micro-computers to typesetting equipment (1980) which led to computer consulting which led to moving from Indiana to the Washington DC area which led to revitalizing our publishing company which led to publishing a new edition of Professor John McAleer's biography of Rex Stout and a release of the audio tape of the Rex Stout interview, which led to publishing other mystery books to releasing a new edition of Professor J. Kenneth Van Dover's book "At Wolfe's Door, A Guide to Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe Novels," which will be released in the next two weeks. Of course there was the intellectual stimulation and the rapport with the characters in the corpus and with Rex Stout, Wolfe Pack members, etc. that was the impetus for all of the above. Other than that, I can't think of any influence at all."

Who or What is a Tingley Tidbit?

It's an obscure reference from a little-known, posthumously published Wolfe novella, Bitter End. It has the same plot as the non-Wolfe novel featuring Tecumseh Fox, Bad for Business. Stout wrote three mysteries featuring Tecumseh Fox.

Tingley's Tidbits is a fictitious, prepared food that is a key plot devise. Mr. Tingley owns the prepared food company that manufactures the tidbits.

Bitter End was published in James Rock Publishing's Corsage (1979) which had a limited printing of a few thousand and has been out of print since it's initial print run. Bitter End was also included in the trilogy Death Times Three (1985), which contains two other Wolfe stories previously published only in magazines.

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