27th October

Today in 1913, President Woodrow Wilson said, 'I want to take this occasion to say that the United States will never again seek one additional foot of territory by conquest.'

Er ...

In other news ...
Dylan Thomas, the Welsh poet, was born today in 1914. The midwife described him as a milk-sopping, bed-wetting sort of kid, Cartland-purple where he wasn't puce-pink, puking over the porcelain in the parlour while Captain Jack went out for a doubler and a pint.

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.