Word: guernsey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision came just in time for Rollins' 66th commencement. After the traditional Festival of Lights, senior awards were passed out on Class Day, and 128 candidates for degrees marched in procession to Knowles Memorial Chapel. There the graduates listened to an address by S. Kendrick Guernsey, past president of Rotary International, and received their diplomas-all signed by Acting President McKean-while Dr. Wagner remained quietly at home with his family...
Then Henry Head came to the island. Henry was a bustling, 5 ft. 6 in. insurance salesman from nearby Guernsey. Three years ago he married a Sark woman of property. In feudal Sark, her properties and duties automatically became his, and Henry found himself a member of Sark's parliament. At first he refused to take his seat. "Sark," he said churlishly, "has done without me for 500 years. It can do without me now." Then, finding himself stuck with the job, he plunged deep into Sarkese law. He soon discovered among other things that the very parliament...
Rand's neighbors were not so easily fobbed off. They proceeded to make the bitch-owning newcomer's life miserable by tossing an occasional brick through his windows and trampling his neat garden. Rand complained to a newsman on the neighboring island of Guernsey...
...promised the Guernsey editor, "will break this medieval monopoly about the keeping of bitches on Sark." He splashed Rand's story on his front page and awaited developments. They were not long in coming. Sark's constables showed up at Rand's house, told him curtly to get Jip off the island or shoot her within four days. Rand made arrangements to send his pet to Guernsey, but at the last moment he changed his mind. "We were together in the air raids," he stammered. "She stuck to us and we'll stick...
...enjoyed your article about the Clameur de Haro in the Isle of Guernsey [TIME, May 8] . . . Perhaps you should have added some notes...