Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Rayner Heppenstall

Born: July 27, 1911
Died: May 23, 1981 (aged 69)
Bio: John Rayner Heppenstall was a British novelist, poet, diarist, and a BBC radio producer.
Known for:
- The blaze of noon (1939)
- The greater infortune (1960)
- The fourfold tradition (1961)
- The connecting door (1962)