8th September

This review appeared in the Field and Stream magazine in 1961 -

'This pictorial account of the day-to-day life of a gamekeeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor inclined readers ... In this reviewer's opinion, the book cannot take the place of J R Miller's Practical Gamekeeping.'

This was of course a review of D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and we must assume that Field and Stream was being tongue in cheek about the whole thing. Bums and Tits Weekly was rather more forthright, of course -

'What a load of $%^&*!!! The ^&%$£^* is pretty good but we also had all this %"**& about gamekeeping thrown in.'

In other news ...
Today in 1916 President Woodrow Wilson promised American women the vote.. He later withdrew the offer on the grounds that the First Lady, Mrs Woodrow Wilson, had him in a side head mare at the time and he wasn't thinking straight.

21st March

The Lord Chief Justice, Herbert Parker, gave the world a fascinating insight into the psyche of judges today in 1961. He said, 'A judge is not supposed to know anything about the facts of life until they have been presented in evidence and explained to him at least three times.'
This was also the time when another judge asked the jury in his summing up in the obscenity case concerning D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover whether this was a book you would allow your servants to read. Both judges were practising when the death penalty still operated in Britain.

Scary, isn't it?

In other news ...
On this day in 1908, the aviator Henri Farman flew over Paris with the first ever air passenger on board his aircraft. There is no truth in the rumour that the man was bound and gagged or that he was suicidal.

He was just high as a kite.