The Adventure of the Speckled Band a pipe. Even Conan Doyle's bow was upstaged when Lyn Harding appeared at curtain call with the snake draped around his neck. "The Speckled Band" ran for 169 performances at the Adelphi Theatre before transferring to the Globe on 28 August. The play enjoyed a successful tour in England, with two touring-companies on the road by the end of August, while the New York presentation was marred by clumsy production. Conan Doyle's financial difficulties were at an end, yet there were still problems to be resolved with the production. While the human cast was excellent, the live snake proved to
The Machine That Won the War (short story) to manpower and spare parts shortage. Finally, Lamar Swift, Executive Director of the Solar Federation, reveals that he had not trusted the reports produced by Multivac, and had made the final decisions purely on the toss of a coin, which was not very smart, even though it worked. The Machine That Won the War (short story) "The Machine That Won the War" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the October 1961 issue of "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction", and was reprinted in the collections "Nightfall and Other Stories" (1969) and