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...Small in the Saddle. On Dartmoor in England, TV Cowpoke Ross Salmon went for an off-camera canter on his cattle ranch, got tossed off by his skewbald mare Faithful, sent Faithful for help when he found he was too badly shaken up to remount, shivered all night after Faithful moseyed off in the wrong direction, gloomily told well-wishers: "I cannot think of anything more harmful for an experienced cowboy than to admit falling off his horse. I am afraid the kiddies will have finished with...
Many another staunch spirit was equally unstarched last week. In a quick one-two, Britain's July temperatures had shifted from the coldest since 1901 to the hottest on record at Kew Observatory. On shadeless Dartmoor, escaping Convict Maurice Patrick Murphy gave up the chase and called to his pursuers: "This way, boys, it's too hot for hikin'." While police in radio cars patrolled seaside resorts, pleading with parents to keep their children out of the sun, two prize pigs at an agricultural show in Lyndhurst dropped dead after winning a ribbon apiece...
AWAKE DEBORAH-Eden Phillpotts-Macmillan ($2.50). Long golden hair woven into a Dartmoor heath lark's nest is the first clue to murder that stirs an English botanist out of his dignified ease and sadly perplexes Scotland Yard. Lengthy, but impressive story in the grand English tradition...
...such circumstances Arundel's sale was small, but it was steady. Soon Roberts was working on The Lively Lady, an early 19th-Century story of privateering and Dartmoor jail. Then he went back to the American Revolution. Rabble in Arms was finished in the hungry autumn of 1933. Wrote Roberts in his journal: "Finished the proofs. Broke and almost dead." Said A. Hamilton Gibbs: "A masterly presentation of the period." Murmured Friend Alexander Woollcott: "A fine murmurous forest of a book...
...Princetown, England, home of famed Dartmoor Prison, villagers watched open-mouthed while a uniformed convict shambled sheepishly through the town, knocked at the prison gates, shouted: "I've been locked...