ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE SEPTEMBER 28, 1964
PRESIDENT Kennedy told his wife a few hours before his assassination that it would not be difficult for anybody to kill him. He said he could not be protected against a telescopic rifle on a high building. This was revealed today when the Warren Commission published its report on the murder. It concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald killed the President without any accomplices.
SEPTEMBER 28, 1982
PEOPLE’S privacy must be safeguarded in the computerised shopping age, a report says today. And customers must be spared any embarrassment if a computer at a supermarket checkout says they haven’t enough in their bank accounts to pay for the shopping. ‘It is essential this delicate matter is handled with tact,’ says the report by the Office of Fair Trading.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
BRIGITTE BARDOT, 86. The French screen idol, star of And God Created Woman, was once dubbed ‘immoral, from head to toe’ by a Paris magazine. Married four times, she is now an animal rights activist, saying: ‘I gave my youth and my beauty to men, I am now giving my wisdom and my experience, the best of myself, to animals.’ NAOMI WATTS, 52. The Oscar-nominated star was born in Kent but spent her teenage years in Australia. For her part as a therapist in the Netflix psychological thriller series Gypsy, she paid $400 an hour of her own money for cognitive behaviour therapy sessions. She declined to pass on the bill, adding: ‘They say you don’t get anything out of it if you’re not the one paying.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
ROBERT WOLDERS (1936-2018). The Dutch actor played, in his words, ‘a combination of Errol Flynn, 007 and Casanova’ in the 1960s TV western Laredo and appeared in Bewitched and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. But he became better known as the husband of actress Merle Oberon, and later the partner of Audrey Hepburn (pictured with him) for her last 12 years — she called him her ‘spiritual twin’. ED SULLIVAN (1901-1974). The U.S. star hosted his own show for 23 years from 1948 until three years before his death. He gave Jack Benny, Humphrey Bogart, Maria Callas, Elvis Presley and Rudolf Nureyev their U.S. TV debuts. The Beatles’ appearance garnered 73 million viewers and Paul McCartney said: ‘We came out of nowhere with funny hair, looking like marionettes . . . that was very influential. I think that was really one of the big things that broke us.’
ON SEPTEMBER 28…
IN 1924, two U.S. army planes completed the first round-the-world flight after landing in Seattle. It took 175 days. IN 1990, Macmillan Cancer Support held its first Coffee Morning. In 2019, the event raised £27.5 million
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Avocation (c1500s) A) A hobby. B) Coming of age. C) A legal summons. Answer below PHRASE EXPLAINED: Where there’s muck there’s brass — means money can be made from dirty activities, with brass referring to cash. A 1900s phrase from Yorkshire.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
People don’t actually read newspapers. They get into them every morning, like a hot bath. Marshall McLuhan, Canadian scholar (1911-1980)
JOKE OF THE DAY
IF YOU’RE here for the yodelling lesson… please form an orderly, orderly queue! Guess The Definition answer: A.