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...ROTHEBY Devon...
...weeks and 3,000 miles of traveling, Detective Clifford Burgess and his pretty girl assistant turned up enough to make Tuesday Lobsang long for a lamasery. For, announced Burgess, his name is neither Rampa nor Kuan Suo but plain Cyril Henry Hoskin, and he is the son of a Devon plumber...
...researcher ask, "Where do you keep your cow?", the farmer might reply with the modern cowshed. But if he is asked, "What do you call the place where you keep Moo?" he might say byre (Northumberland), cowhowel or cowhoyle (Yorkshire'). shippom (Lancashire), mistal (west Yorkshire) or shobbin (Devon...
...Devon...
...Only 20 yards from the wire, Devon Loch, Queen Mother Elizabeth's big brown gelding, had England's Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree practically put away. "Devon Loch wins," said the bulletin that went out on press association wires, but then: "Cancel! Cancel!'' Suddenly Devon Loch had slipped and fallen. The unexpected winner: a ioo-to-7 long shot named E.S.B. (for its sire, English Summer, and dam, Bider...