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...Sark forbids anyone but the island's hereditary lord to own a bitch. The only bitch on Sark in the last few years belonged to Sibyl Hathaway, the hereditary Dame of the island. She died two years ago. At that time a mousy radio repairman named Ernest Rand decided to quit London for the quiet of the Channel Islands. Knowing nothing of Sark's quaint laws, he sailed to the island taking with him his seven-year-old terrier, Jip. Officials permitted Jip to land without question and six months later Sark's constables came around...
...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...
This left the voters of South Carolina only lesser issues to decide upon. Johnston, said Thurmond, was immoral, "because he once entertained Sally Rand in the governor's mansion." Thurmond, Johnston retorted, had once stood on his head for a photographer...
Booked on charges of "giving an indecent performance" for the umpteenth time since she took up fandangling, Sally Rand protested, "I'm sorry, I just don't tell my age." (Milwaukee Policewoman Geraldine Sampon, who had found Sally "nude as could be" in a lakefront carnival show, finally got her to admit...
...West Coast, the aircraft carrier Philippine Sea, getting ready for Pacific duty, needed five motor-driven centrifugal pumps from New Jersey's strikebound Ingersoll-Rand Co. At noon one day last week, the Navy asked management and the union whether they couldn't get together long enough to deliver the pumps...