Word: driffield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week at Coltishall airfield in Norfolk, Blackie, a prize tercel (male falcon), his sister Collette and two other lady falcons, Odette and Isolde, were hard at work at new peacetime jobs. Eight other falcons were busy at Driffield in Yorkshire. Each day a thickly gloved trainer took them out on the field and gingerly removed their hoods. Then (in falconer's lingo) "they rang up from the fist, attained their pitch at 1,000 or more feet up, waited on until the game was served to them," and swooped to the kill at speeds up to 300 m.p.h...
...TWENTY-ONE CLUES-J. J. Connington-Little, Brown ($2). An English version of the Hall-Mills murder case: preacher and paramour pistoled in the bracken. Sir Clinton Driffield, chief constable, uses dead cats to prove the Crown needs two warrants for murder. Clever, and a satisfying puzzle...
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