ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
JUNE 21, 1960 THE waxwork of Mr Antony ArmstrongJones is back in Madame Tussaud’s — after its lost weekend. PC Leonard Edwards saw the figure in evening dress in a telephone box in Savoy Hill, off the Strand, yesterday and at first thought it was a drunk. The £500 effigy was stolen from its stand beside that of Princess Margaret. JUNE 21, 1966 MISS SHEILA SCOTT, the first Briton to fly solo around the world, landed at London Heathrow Airport yesterday and said: ‘It’s fabulous to be back.’ Despite snatching four hours’ sleep each night, the 38-year-old blonde looked as if she had just left a beauty salon.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
PRINCE WILLIAM, 36, right. As a child, the Duke of Cambridge called the Queen ‘Gary’, as he couldn’t say ‘ Granny’. He reportedly tried to keep a low profile at St Andrew’s University by having friends call him Steve. The second in line to the throne became a fan of chicken chain Nando’s after a police bodyguard introduced him to it. LANA DEL REY, 33. The Grammynominated U.S. singer, born Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, found fame with 2011 hit Video Games. Sober since 2004, she has said she was alcoholic at a young age, adding: ‘At first it’s fine and you think you have a dark side — it’s exciting — and then you realise the dark side wins every time.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
JANE RUSSELL ( 19212011), right. The U.S. sex symbol’s breakthrough film was The Outlaw, a western made in 1941, but billionaire director Howard Hughes’s emphasis on her 38D embonpoint meant it was banned until 1947 — although Hughes exploited its infamy through illicit screenings and lawsuits to drum up publicity. Three-times married Russell, a mum of three, preferred being a housewife to Hollywood, believing this saved her from the fate of her Gentlemen Prefer Blondes costar Marilyn Monroe. She said: ‘I was born to be married. A family life helps everything.’ BENAZIR BHUTTO (1953-2007). The first female prime minster of Pakistan was jailed by Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq’s military government, then exiled to Britain in 1984. She returned home to be PM from 1988 to 1990 and 1993 to 1996. She enjoyed reading Mills & Boon romances, Hello! magazine and self-help books. She was assassinated in Rawalpindi by a bomber as she waved to crowds from a hatch in a bullet-proof car.
ON JUNE 21…
IN 1978, musical Evita, starring Elaine Paige, opened in London. IN 1982, John Hinckley was found not guilty of the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan ‘by reason of insanity’.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Metoposcopy (coined in 1569)
A) Divination using arrows. B) Study of tree rings. C) Art of telling fortunes by lines on the forehead. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Down to the wire: Meaning right to the last moment, from 19th-century U.S. horse racing when crossing under a wire above the finishing line indicated a winner.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
THERE is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou, U.S. poet (1928-2014)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT was in Charles Dickens’s spice rack? The best of thymes, the worst of thymes. Guess The Definition answer: C.