ON THIS DAY
February 10, 2018
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE FEBRUARY 10, 1927
CRUfT’s dog show, which opened at the Royal Agricultural Hall in London’s Islington, yesterday, was marred by the loss of a dog worth more than £100. Maggie Pie, a Dalmatian, ran away from owner Mrs D. K. Hackney, of Brentwood, Essex, bolted for an open door and bit an attendant. Once outside it leapt over a tricycle and dashed down Liverpool Road [and was run over].
FEBRUARY 10, 1967
THEY are male mannequins from new model agency, English Boy. Its aim is to ‘put the boy, as opposed to the girl, on the magazine cover’. In other words to oust the pipe-sucking, jaw-jutting men in ads who seem to spend their time drinking ale, sailing yachts and striding across moors with dogs. Most of the models work during the day in boutiques, art schools or films.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
KEELEY HAWEs, 42. The English actress, (pictured) who grew up in a London council flat, has starred in The Durrells, Ashes To Ashes and spooks. she relaxes ‘with wine, knitting and my bath’ — a 56-stone french cast-iron tub, so big it had to come in through the window. Hawes has revealed her actor husband Matthew Macfadyen has been paid more for a similar job. ROBERTA fLACK, 81. The U.s. soul singer was the first person to win the prestigious Record of the Year at the Grammys for two consecutive years — for The first Time Ever I saw Your face and Killing Me softly With His song. she is a classically trained pianist and plays Chopin for pleasure. Once a neighbour of John Lennon, she released a Beatles covers album, Let It Be Roberta.
BORN ON THIS DAY
PETER ALLEN ( 19441992). The Australian singer-songwriter, who won an Oscar for his theme for 1981 film Arthur, was discovered by Judy Garland. He married her daughter, Liza Minnelli (pictured together), who caught him in bed with a man on their wedding night. He also had an affair with her mother’s husband, Mark Herron. DAME JUDITH ANDERsON (1897-1992). The Adelaide-born actress was Oscarnominated as the sinister Mrs Danvers in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1940 version of Rebecca and acclaimed for stage roles such as Lady Macbeth and Medea. Aged 87, she played a Vulcan high priestess in star Trek III. she said: ‘People always think of me as playing these terrible, terrible women. But no one remembers the pleasant people — Mary, the mother of Jesus, and so many others. I haven’t always been an ogre.’
ON FEBRUARY 10…
IN 1947, Christian Dior’s first fashion collection, his extravagant New Look, featuring full skirts and tiny waists, caused a sensation in austere post-war Paris.
IN 2005, for the first time, North Korea boasted of having nuclear weapons.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Simony (1225) A) selling of church offices or privileges. B) Religious figure at prayer. C) Ordination of a priest. Answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED
Hobnob: spending time with someone rich or famous. from a corruption of hab nab meaning ‘have or not have’ thus give and take, as in two people toasting each other.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
It Is better to waste one’s youth than to do nothing with it at all. Georges Courteline, French novelist (1858-1929)
JOKE OF THE DAY
HOW do you make a cheese puff? Chase it around the block. Guess The Definition answer: A.