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FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE MAY 29, 1945
X-RAY photographs taken by West End dentists who attended nazi foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop when he was German ambassador in London have been collected by police in the past few days. These prints have been circulated to the British, American and Russian authorities, so Ribbentrop or anybody who pretends to be him can be officially identified when he falls, dead or alive, into Allied hands.
MAY 29, 1957
A MAn without a television set is the new chairman of the BBC. Sir Arthur fforde, head of Rugby School, confessed to the ‘crime’ at a London Press conference last night following his appointment. ‘if i want to see television i can go to one of the masters who has one,’ he said.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
AnnETTE BEninG, 60. The U.S. actress, star of American Beauty (right), celebrated her 25th wedding anniversary with notorious ex-womaniser Warren Beatty last year. Beatty, who is said to have slept with over 12,000 women, said: ‘it took about ten minutes [to fall in love with her]. Maybe five.’ He later added. ‘i was so elated to meet her, and yet at the same time, i began to mourn the passing of a way of life.’ SARAH MiLLiCAn, 43. The comedian from South Shields divorced at 29 and turned the heartbreak into her first comedy routine. Asked who would play her in a film, she said: ‘When i started doing stand-up, i was likened to Mrs Doubtfire and Tootsie, so i’d be played by a very hairy man.’ She says of her material: ‘i get the chatty, anecdotal stuff from my dad and the filth from my mam.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
KATiE BOYLE (1926-2018). The broadcaster, actress and model (right), who died in March aged 91, hosted the Eurovision Song Contest four times in the Sixties and Seventies. She was born Caterina irene Elena Maria imperiali di Francavilla in Florence to an italian father and English mother. At 18, she had an affair with a married italian secret policeman and her father locked her in her room for weeks, before admitting her to a psychiatric hospital. CHARLES ii (1630-1685). Charles i’s son was proclaimed king of Scotland in 1650 and tried and failed to invade England, but in 1660 was invited to reclaim the throne. Childless with his wife, he acknowledged 12 illegitimate children and made his own ‘corpse medicine’ by distilling a liquid from human skulls, which he drank to cure ailments.
ON MAY 29…
IN 1886, the very first advert for Coca-Cola was published, in The Atlanta Journal, describing the drink as ‘ Delicious! Refreshing! Exhilarating! invigorating!’ IN 1982, John Paul ii became the first pope to visit Canterbury Cathedral.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Kef (coined 1808)
A) The soft hair of a rabbit. B) A state of voluptuous dreaminess, full of languid contentment. C) A jerk of the finger, let go from the thumb. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Knuckle under: To submit to someone else’s authority. An allusion to the subservient gesture of stooping with one’s knuckles low down or on the ground.