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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Medieval Monopoly | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Medieval Monopoly | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...enjoyed your article about the Clameur de Haro in the Isle of Guernsey [TIME, May 8] . . . Perhaps you should have added some notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1950 | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...Hilltop House. Three months ago on the island of Guernsey, fellow bank clerks began to notice that gaunt, hound-eared Tom Hugo was becoming more & more abstracted about the water pipe supplying his house on a hilltop in St. Peter Port. The water pipe, which Tom considered his own, was already feeding two houses, and Tom had learned that soon the waterworks were planning to add another two houses on the line. If that were done, thought Tom, there would be scarcely a trickle left for himself and his family of eight. He plunged deep into Guernsey law, studying what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stopped Proper | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...confinement in the lowest dungeon of 14th Century Castle Cornet. The penalty nowadays is only a small fine. Twenty years ago, Alfred Machon was fined one shilling for a false clameur (TIME, March 3,1930). As Tom's case rested last week, however, the gloomier greybeards of Guernsey noted with interest that workmen were busy restoring the old castle's long-neglected dungeon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stopped Proper | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

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