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...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...
...landsmen who speak of 'the call of the sea.' " The pay was wretched and the food was often worse. When steam brought hard times, many owners made up crews of teen-age boys who paid for the experience. One such crew of youngsters on the famed Cutty Sark got little but pea soup and "boiled salt horse" during a voyage of many months, and biscuits so hard that they had to be smashed with belaying pins...
Last week, at Henry's insistence, Sark trooped to the polls for the second election in its history. Henry himself had whipped up a New Brigade Party, consisting largely of his wife and various employees at the local Stock's Hotel, to oppose the old-guard deputies. "It's a disgrace, a perfect disgrace," muttered one oldtimer, "holding the island up to ridicule." In the local greystone schoolhouse (which doubles as the parliament chamber), he and 190-odd other voters of Sark soon made their indignation evident on the ballot. Not one of Henry Head...
Next morning the new parliament convened and with almost unanimous voice appointed meddlesome Henry Head a constable of Sark-a gesture of pure revenge, since Sark's two constables are unpaid and may not resign or refuse their jobs under severe penalty of law. Said Henry Head: "I object...