ON THIS DAY
June 14, 2019
JUNE 14, 1973 A PHOTOGRAPHER who took pictures of Marlon Brando in New York ended up in hospital with a broken jaw and nine stitches. Last night, the photographer Ron Galella, said: ‘I can’t understand Brando. He talks about how people mistreat Indians but look how he mistreats photographers.’ [Galella sued Brando, settling for £26,000.] JUNE 14, 1975 JOHN PROfuMO ( pictured with wife Valerie) centre of the most sensational sex scandal this century, today officially has been handed back his self- respect. Twelve years to the month that he quit in shame as Minister of War, he has been honoured with the CBE, for his work among the deprived of London’s East End. Mr Profumo resigned after admitting that he lied to the Commons about his relationship with Christine Keeler. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DONALD TRuMP, 73. According to the Washington Post, President Trump has made almost 11,000 false or misleading claims over 869 days. The head of his waxwork at Madame Tussaud’s in New York features a combination of yak hair and human hair, while his eyebrows are made of squirrel fur. His successful presidential campaign spent more on baseball caps than polling. JuNE SPENCER, 100. The actress ( pictured) has played Peggy in radio soap The Archers since 1951 and scriptwriters are planning a plot bombshell for today’s episode. Having been on the radio for 68 years she is still largely unrecognised until she opens her mouth. She recently thanked cabin crew on a flight to Menorca recalling: ‘The stewardess said, “Are you famous? Ah yes, you’re Peggy Archer.” ’ BORN ON THIS DAY ERNESTO ‘CHE’ GuEVARA (1928-1967). The Argentine medical student-turnedMarxist revolutionary helped fidel Castro seize control in Cuba. After leading a rebellion in Bolivia, he was executed by firing squad, aged 39. His hands were cut off and his body was buried in a mass grave — it was not found until 1997. SAM WANAMAKER (1919-1993). The u.S. actor’s legacy was the reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London. He spent 20 years fund-raising, but died four years before it opened. Actress daughter Zoe recalled: ‘The Globe bug became all-consuming. It dominated all our lives.’ ON JUNE 14…
IN 1940, German troops met no resistance as they marched into Paris.
IN 1995, Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley gave their first interview since their marriage a year earlier. Asked if they had sex, Elvis’s daughter said: ‘Yes, yes, yes.’ WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Infundibulum (2003) A) The underworld B) Torpor, C) Something funnel-shaped. Answer below PHRASE EXPLAINED
Cut to the quick: To deeply wound or emotionally distress; ‘quick’, from the Old English ‘cwicu’ for living, has the sense of a very sensitive part of the body.