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...charges are ridiculous," Hoskin, whose hearing was earlier yesterday, said. "We defended ourselves only after the police attacked us." The court postponed the trial of the eight defendants indefinitely

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defense Requests Review of Jury In Robbery Trial of Sophomore | 11/17/1971 | See Source »

...result, Hoskin, 47, was nearly $50,000 richer last week as he lay ill in his Irish cottage. Outside, flocks of tourists, alerted by front-page treatment of the expose in the British press, trampled the lawn. The embarrassed publishing firm of Seeker & Warburg suspended plans for publication of Hoskin's next book, Medical Lama. Said a U.S. spokesman for Doubleday: "We expected that people would think it was good reading, but not necessarily true." "I am surprised," said Agent Brooks. "He possesses extraordinary powers of telepathy." Ailing Hoaxer Hoskin (he says he has both heart disease and cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Private v. Third Eye | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...four 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Private v. Third Eye | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

Ghost's Ghost. Hoskin had "gone Eastern" while working for a career-counseling firm in London. He shaved his head, grew a beard, changed his name and wrote a rhyme to his managing director: "You may wonder why I go on so But will you please remember I am Kuan Suo." When he was sacked some time later, he took to "spivving it" and writing occasional magazine articles. To Literary Agent Cyrus Brooks he brought a manuscript on corsets and such a high, wide and fancy load of Himalayan snow that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Private v. Third Eye | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...Buckingham '33, B.C. Datfield '33, H.H. Hoskin '33, K.W. McMahan '33, A.K. Philbrick '35, W.H. Schofield '33, Leo Srole '33, H.A. Stone '33, E.H. Tayler '34, W.O. Thomas '35, J.S. Weld '35, H.K. Wells...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee on Scholarships Awards 298 Upperclassmen Fund Totalling $99,284 | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

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