I read in a morning newspaper about the greats of cricket from the past who will be visiting the Centenary Test, including Bob Cowper (27 Tests, 1964-’69), the Victorian left-hand batsman who, in the 1965-’66 Test series against England, amassed 307 (the highest Test score on Australian soil) at the M.C.G., which the reporter states: “… did more to drive people away from the sport”.
Agnetha and Anni-Frid, the female half of the Swedish pop group, Abba, appear in today’s “The Sun” newspaper, clad in bikinis. The photograph was taken in Perth.
This morning a blaze at the Harbord Diggers’ Club, a northern coastal suburb of Sydney, caused damage, estimated at one and a half million dollars, to its dining room and kitchen.
At 7.00 p.m., the current affairs series, “Willesee”, presented by Michael Willesee, featured a transvestite, and later, a girl of just fourteen who is eight months into her pregnancy.
At half past the hour, and also on Channel Seven: “Many Faces Of Dick Emery”. From eight o’clock, on Channel Two, a programme in Bill Peach’s series, “Holiday”, takes the viewer to Fiji, thence on a tour by bus in Western Australia before concluding with a cruise on the Murray River. I watched half an hour of the film, “Asylum”, on Channel 7, which stars Richard Todd, Sylvia Simms and Barbara Parkins; before calling it a night. Sydney’s maximum was thirty-three degrees Celsius.