Word: sark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cutting Sarlc. At once tempers flared. Monaco's Ollivier urged that the Little Four be expanded to the Little Seven with the addition of the Vatican, Luxembourg and Sark, the last a semi-autonomous island in the English Channel with .. population of 450. The baron protested that Sark has more birds than people, and added testily: "Luxembourg does not belong either. Its population of 300,000 dwarfs the rest of us put together. Be sides, Luxembourg is a member of NATO and out of our class...
...total population of two. One of them, the reigning Lieutenant Grand Master, was far too busy to see Sack. In Monaco, Sack missed Prince Rainier, but everywhere else he hobnobbed with the princes, seneschals, presidents, captains regent, sheiks, nawabs, rahs and dewans of postage-stamp domains from Sark in the English Channel to Sikkim on the edge of Tibet. The Nawab of Amb, a country that is gradually being swallowed up by Pakistan, told Sack of his philanthropies (he had just given 60?to a beggar, $3.60 to an orphanage). Then, too, his son, the Nawab Zada, has had difficulties...
...Pyrenees, between France and Spain. An ex-reporter for U.P. and a magazine writer, Sack employs a racily frenetic style, e.g., using "chugalug" as a verb meaning to drink and "crackajack" as an adjective meaning excellent, and is often as determinedly elfin as Tchico, the dog ghost of Sark. In rating the 13 microcosmic spots he visited, Sack gives highest honors to San Marino, the mountaintop republic in Italy, and second place to polo-playing Punial, a small state near Kashmir. Readers may find the book too whimsy-whamsy to be described as crackajack, but it should not drive them...
...Sark, Guernsey, England
Died. Robert Woodward Hathaway, 67, American-born Seigneur of Sark, 2-sq.-mile, semifeudal English Channel island; of thrombosis; in Sark. Hathaway acquired his title when he married the Dame de Sark, Mrs. Sibyl Collings Beaumont, in 1929, worked with her to keep the island and its 542 inhabitants just as they had been when Sark was created as a seigneury by Queen Elizabeth in 1565. They perpetuated the island's ban on automobiles, female dogs and homing pigeons, discouraged movies and newspapers, levied tithes of grain, sheep and wool...