The 6ft 6in Edmund "Tiny" Ruffner (right) was the host of The Better
Half.

The radio quiz show The Better Half was aired for the first time on Mutual. The
show involved 4 married couples pitted against each other in various feats to
find out which of them was the "better" one.

Sandy Kozel

Roderick David "Rod" Stewart is 71 today.

Stewart worked as a newspaper delivery boy and a gravedigger. He left
school when he was fifteen and sought out a career as a footballer until
he was rejected. He was named the seventeenth most successful artist
of the The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists.