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...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 to collect Jip's license fee without bothering to check...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Medieval Monopoly | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...airport, as he got off the plane from Chicago, a news photographer flashed a picture of him. The tired old man took a harried, halfhearted swing at his annoyer, and missed. After he got into his car, he let the photographer take another shot, with his pet terrier nuzzled up to him. "At least somebody loves me," he said plaintively. Ailing, 63-year-old Joe McCarthy, baseball's "winningest" manager, was heading into retirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: This Is Final | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...Yardlings picked up 13 hits off the combined Terrier pitching. George Chase got four, and batted in four runs, Johnson, John Canepa, and John CVollins also got two each...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '53 Nine Beats BU 12-10; Will Meet Green Tomorrow | 5/12/1950 | See Source »

Carter won the broad jump at just under 21 feet, with Bob Ray a quarter inch behind. Dick Barwise went five feet, 10 inches to take the high jump with Geick third, and Bud Lockett was second to Terrier Jose Barbosa's 11 feet in the pole vault...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Track Team Beats Holy Cross, B.U. | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

Unless Bud Lockett comes through, the Crimson will be lucky to get anything in the pole vault. Terrier Jose Barbosa, sixth in the Olympics, does a consistent 13 feet...

Author: By Edward J. Coughlin, | Title: Track Team Faces B.U., Holy Cross | 4/29/1950 | See Source »

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