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...last remnants of William the Conqueror's Dukedom of Normandy still held by the 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...
...Empties. Dave Sark, Local 726's president, was running the show and he knew how to keep it jumping with fun and sightseeing. There was a stop at Colorado Springs and another for a look at the Royal Gorge and there was a bus trip into the mountains in Utah and swimming in the Great Salt Lake ("you float in that water"). Out of Salt Lake City, Sam Conino got a telegram; his wife had her baby O.K. The boys of Sam's local were all traveling without their wives and itching for a real party, and that...
Deported to Germany from his Nazi-occupied feudal seigniory in the English Channel was U.S.-born Robert Woodward Hathaway, Seigneur of Sark by his 1929 marriage to the Dame of Sark...
...Bolles' undraftable reserve outfit but the Radcliffe crew that curious College students have seen paddling up and down the upper reaches of the Charles in their slightly leaky Leviathan, the good barge Cutty Sark...
...season ended Friday, the girls plan to keep in condition this winter in anticipation of coming out into the open next spring. All that they used to take on Wellesley's more experienced eights, they say, is a new boathouse, a launch and a substitute for the invincible Cutty Sark. But until they get them, they are determined to slosh along bravely with smiles on their faces and water on their toes...