Above, the cover of Stella Gray’s lez sleaze classic The Naked Archer, for Vega Books, 1966. We haven’t read this one—it sells for way too much money. But the cover blurb gives the gist, and typically, because the readers were mostly male, lesbians in these books didn’t stay lesbian for long, so we’re pretty sure we know how this one goes. The art is by the underrated Bill Edwards.
1921—Einstein Wins Nobel
German theoretical physicist Albert Einstein is awarded the Nobel Prize for his work with the photoelectric effect, a phenomenon in which electrons are emitted from matter as a consequence of their absorption of energy from electromagnetic radiation. In practical terms, the phenomenon makes possible such devices as electroscopes, solar cells, and night vision goggles.