Raymond Chandler hit the world today back in 1888. He was a scrawny kid, kinda small and kinda pink, but he didn't take no nonsense from the broads and got ten to twenty in Leavenworth for refusin' to have his diaper changed.
In other news ...
Today in 1940, the LDV ('Look, Duck and Vanish') had their name changed to the Home Guard. They were the boys who would stop Hitler's little game had the Germans succeeded in landing in Britain that summer. As it was, they were the forerunners of one of the most popular and longest running sitcoms of all time.
Although I was always led to believe that the fictional Warmington in which the series was set was actually Goering-am-Zee.
'Go' as our American Allies who didn't join the war for eighteen months would say, 'figure'.
