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...silence and virulence of the bubonic plague of the Middle Ages, marched inexorably across the English countryside. Last week, despite frantic efforts to halt it, the worst animal epidemic in British history raged through a 17,640-sq.-mi. area from the county of Gloucester in the south to Westmorland in the north...
...Family. While Jackie flies, earthbound Judge Saund concentrates on the new voters of Riverside, the largest urban area. (As a vice-fighting district judge in the little farm town of Westmorland, Saund is already well known in the Imperial Valley.) To help get him known to the new Riverside residents, Saund's wife, son, two daughters and a couple of in-laws have conducted a prodigiously successful registration drive, adding 6,500 new voters to the county rolls in eleven weeks. Saund himself travels tirelessly from Kaffeeklatsch to luncheon talk to dinner speech in his six-year-old Buick...
Wholesaler. In Westmorland, Calif., after they decided to add a motorcycle cop to the force, town councilmen approached Merill Miller to buy his machine, were forced to give him the job when he threatened not to sell...
...early counting of Yarmouth shepherds (ina, mina, tethera, methera) became "Eena, meena, mina, mo"; and Westmorland's hevera,devera,dick (eight, nine and ten) is the most likely origin of "Hickory, dickory, dock." In the 18th Century, "Hot Cross Buns / One a penny / Two a penny" was a street vendor's cry. "Baa, baa, black sheep / Have you any wool?" probably dates back to the export tax imposed on wool in 1275. The "Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie" goes back to the Renaissance, when live birds really were put in pies, ready...
...wriggled forever into the lives of millions. Last week news reached the U.S. that Peter Rabbit's creator was dead. The end had come three days before Christmas to 77-year-old Mrs. William Heelis ("Beatrix Potter"), wife of a British solicitor, mistress of Hill Top Farm, Sawrey, Westmorland, England, artist and author of some of the best-known children's books ever published...