Sunday Pictorial dated Sunday August 29th 1926
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Clemington ‘Millie’ O. Corson swam from France to England in
15 hrs 23 mins. Richard Davey who swam it in 8 hrs 5 mins in 1988 holds the
record for a crossing in that direction. The slowest time was 22 hrs 42 mins in
1979.
Comedian David Walliams swam from England to France in 10
hrs 29 mins.
All info from the Channel Swimming Association website.
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Slight personal interest here – I used to cross that
pavement outside Stepney Green Station once a week for 5 years to catch the
train to Fairlop where our school had its playing fields. Unlike the
unfortunate George Holmes and A Everett I was never run over.
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Sadly that’s what comes of taking up with these new fangled
American ideas.
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I am fairly sure this is the woman who came to be known as
Anna Anderson who always claimed to be the daughter, Anastasia, of the murdered
Russian Tsar Nicholas II. She didn’t come to England but did go to the USA in
1928. She died in 1984.
Her
claim was finally refuted when DNA comparison with her tissue and the DNA of
the Tsar and his family and surviving relatives, including the Duke of Edinburgh,
found no matches.
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A coach doing 43 mph! I wonder what the motorist
who clocked this ‘juggernaut’ would think if he could spend a few minutes on
the M20 heading towards Dover and being overtaken on the inside by a 16 wheel
artic doing 90.
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Adverts as postmarks! Whatever next? Is this the thin end of
the wedge? Soon it will be whole envelopes covered in advertising bumph with
‘For the Attention of the Occupier’ as the address. The GPO would never let
that happen. Would they?
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Gaston Guyot was a Frenchman who strangled his wife with one
hand while driving and then stopped and put the body in a haystack, which he
set on fire. Unfortunately for him 2 gendarmes happened by, tried to put out
the fire and found the body. Guyot was tried and convicted of the murder and
sentenced to death by guillotine, but due to a public outcry the French
President reduced this to life imprisonment.
His previous 2 wives had committed suicide and he had a
diary in which he recorded 737 previous lovers.
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Ivor Novello was a very successful singer and stage and film
actor who died in 1951.
Sage advice from Mr Novello but some of it soon to be made
redundant by the coming of the Talkies. His final sentiment, ‘… they must
remember that nobody has ever got out of film acting more than they put into
it’ – shows that he obviously he didn’t live to see any Steven Seagal films.
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This is the earliest use of the word ‘kinky’ that I have
come across and, if it had the same meaning then as it has more recently, the
mind boggles. I, for one, have never thought of short white socks, culottes and a Robin
Hood hat as kinky.
Polly
Ward went on to a fairly successful film and stage career that included
co-starring in 2 George Formby films. She died in 1987.
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Note the picture top right from ‘That’s My Baby’ – the 'baby' is actually 24 year old Harry Earls who went on to play a Munchkin in ‘The Wizard of OZ’, appear in Tod Browning’s
controversial film ‘Freaks’ and the sound version of Lon Chaney’s ‘The Unholy
Three’ having also appeared in the silent version in 1925.
Matt Moore (in the picture lower right) has 220 film
appearances in the IMDb starting in 1912 through to 1958. Oddly the last 54,
from 1941 to 1958, are listed as ‘uncredited’.
Mae Allison to Ian Keith – “I have to wear it or those CIA
satellites will read my mind.”
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Both Miss Ivy Cummings and Hugo Urban-Emmerich crashed after
4 laps, George Eyston won in his Bugatti and a certain Englishman called
Malcolm Campbell failed to start.
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Jack Hobbs played cricket for England 157 times between 1908
and 1930 and scored 61,760 runs for Surrey. No stats are available for the
sparrow.
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To my untrained eye it looks like Parker, Millwall, is about
to give Hannah, Norwich City, a bloody good kicking.
Chelsea seems to have a player that has a huge football for
a head. Is this allowed? Must be, because an Arsenal player has one too.
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