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Monday 15 April 1963
Half a million Britons are spending £5 million a year on snuff and more and more women are joining the ranks. “It’s becoming the vogue,” a spokesman for the snuff industry said. “And it’s not unusual now for a woman to take a box of snuff out of her handbag - in public.”
Men’s fashion. Shirts - gingham checks and pastel shades are in; pink and spice are the most popular colours. Ties - suede is still in, but wear a tie with an embroidered pattern and square end. Suits are in. A brown-black mixture is the with-it colour. Waistcoats are also back in fashion.
Eleven thousand actors and actresses, members of Equity, have been asked to support a ban on amateur performers. Equity wants to expand its Closed Shop from the theatre to film, television and radio performances. A number of leading television performers and personalities are not members of Equity. This resolution could end their careers.
In a morning of shocks, two of the favourites dropped out of the world’s toughest rally - the East African Safari Rally. The first victim was Britain’s Pat Moss. The second was her fiancé, Sweden’s Eric Carlsson. Disaster hit Pat’s Cortina on a mud track in Tanganyika, while the suspension on Eric’s Saab broke near Dar-es-Salaam.
Lester Pearson, a Liberal, won the Canadian general election and will form the new government.
Television highlights: Dancing Club. All Our Yesterdays - the Spanish Civil War. Puffin’s Birthday Greetings.
Radio highlights: Hancock’s Half Hour. Book: Mine Own Executioner.
Weather: cloudy with rain, windy. Outlook - brighter. 14c, 57f.
@HannahHowe I remember being offered snuff back in the early 1980's. It was in the Queen Victoria in Priddy. The pub's still there. The guys that gave it me the snuff were almost in tears with laughter anticipating my reaction.
After I took a sniff, they stopped laughing almost immediately. I had absolutely zero reaction to it. No sniffs, no sneezes, nothing.