ON THIS DAY
June 14, 2017
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JUNE 14, 1941
RICH Mayfair men living in ‘big houses’ are trying to dodge fire watching, a Westminster Council official said last night. Tomorrow is the last day for registering.
‘Some of these rich people have gone to the length of going out of London in the hope of escaping. That will not help them. Anyone who fails to register is liable to prosecution and a fine of £100 or three months in gaol.’
JUNE 14, 1962
SOPHIA LOREN’S younger sister, Maria, 24, is expecting a baby at the end of the year. She married jazz-pianist Romano Mussolini, son of the Italian dictator, three months ago. [ Born on December 30, Alessandra Mussolini is now MEP for central Italy.]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
BOY GEORGE, 56. The Culture Club singer and former Voice judge (right) was jailed for 15 months in 2009 for handcuffing a male escort to a wall and beating him with a metal chain. Named in the top 50 alltime Greatest Britons in a BBC poll, and famous for his flamboyant take on fashion, George became the surprise new ‘face’ for Dior Homme’s 2017 ad campaign. ALAN CARR, 41. The Dorset-born comedian and TV chatshow host is the son of former Northampton Town FC footballer and manager Graham Carr. His trademark gap-toothed smile is the result of a childhood holiday accident when he lost his milk teeth after slipping on a caravan towbar. JUDITH KERR, 94. The British author and illustrator became the oldest to top the national book charts, aged 92 in 2015, when she resurrected her character Mog — the cat she killed off in 2002. As a ten-year- old in 1933, she fled her birthplace, Germany, with her family after her father, cultural critic Alfred, was put on a Nazi death list.
BORN ON THIS DAY
DOROTHY McGUIRE (1916-2001). The Hollywood leading lady found a niche playing ‘good’ women — the loving sweetheart, the faithful wife, the ideal mother. She had an aversion to publicity so would have approved of the fact that there was little news space given to her death, as she died just days after the September 11 terrorist attack.
ON JUNE 14 . . .
IN 1775, the U.S. army was founded. IN 1940, the Nazis opened the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland. IN 1961, Transport Minister Ernest Marples announced the ‘panda crossing’ — in light of increasing accidents on zebra crossings.
WORD WIZARDRY NEW WORD OF THE DAY
Adorkability: A look that combines chic and geeky quirkiness in equal measure.
GUESS THE DEFINITION Paraleipsis (coined 1586)
A) Sensation of bugs crawling over a body. B) Sleep of the soul between death and the Day of Judgment. C) Highlighting something by saying you won’t mention it. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Kilroy was here: From World War II and the signature used by James J. Kilroy, a shipyard inspector in Massachussetts, to show he’d passed a piece of equipment as satisfactory.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
A MAN shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s 50; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t. William Faulkner, novelist (1897-1962)
JOKE OF THE DAY
How does NASA organise a party? They planet. Guess The Definition answer: c