Possible Clues:

• Son acquires area of land in a base miles away
• Walked off with head in the clouds
• Summary by editor withdrawn
• 'A newspaper was thought too refined and --' (Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia)
• Summary of book editor added without concentrating
• Removed vehicles, after time, turned up in a plot
• Absent-minded
• Preoccupied when taken out
• Daydreaming, make wrong bet at cards
• It's taken out in wool-gathering