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Once Mrs. Alice Fox and Mrs. Katherine Rollo were friendly next-door neighbors, but the friendship didn't last. They started a spite quarrel for reasons that their neighbors in the Long Hill housing development in Waterbury, Conn, never did get clear. The showdown came when Mrs. Fox ran outside to tell Mrs. Rollo a thing or two and, to punctuate her lecture, kicked her in the stomach...
With the air of a woman who felt it was worth it, 32-year-old Alice Fox paid a $25 fine in Waterbury police court for breaching the peace. But she wasn't to get off that easily. Katherine Rollo, who had to spend six days in the hospital from the kicking, filed a civil damages suit and won a $1,200 judgment from her neighbor. She refused to accept payment of $2 a week: she wasn't going to wait any ½ years to collect, she said...
...British Crown are the Channel Islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark. There, in sentimental moments, Norman islanders still sometimes toast William's distinguished successor George VI as duke rather than king. There, in hard-pressed moments, islanders still look for aid to William's great ancestor Rollo, first Duke of Normandy. Rollo, it is said, was so just and severe a prince that during his early loth Century reign a farmer could leave a plow in an open field with no fear of theft...
...later days, when Rollo was gone, Normans resorted to the cry of "Haro" (possibly a contraction of "Ha, Rollo") to call the old duke's attention to the new wickedness that stalked the land. In time the Clameur de Haro became the Norman equivalent for a court injunction, a legal demand to stop wrongdoing. The Code Napoleon put Haro out of business in Normandy proper, but in Channel Islands law the Clameur de Haro still had the force of law and "Haro being called, the enterprise must cease...
...Dorothy Littlefield, has managed the office since 1945. The Littlefield bureau is proud of its alumni, men who it feels have gone through Littlefield's as well as Harvard, and who often visit the Brattle Street office when back in Cambridge. An office library of Littlefield typed manuscripts includes Rollo Walter Brown's "Harvard Yard in the Golden Age," and a study of Milton's influence on English poetry which was 11 years on a Littlefield carriage. Littlefield's were never political partisans, they have maintained strict surface neutrality; they have maintained strict surface neutrality; they typed sons of Presidents...