ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE OCTOBER 15, 1973
LovELY Helen Stewart yesterday heard her husband, racing driver Jackie Stewart, tell the world: ‘I’ve quit.’
Now everyone knew what she had known for a week. Her Jackie will not die on the racetrack like so many of his friends.
OCTOBER 15, 1977
BINg CRoSBY, the world’s best-loved entertainer, died yesterday as he finished a round of golf in Spain. He was 73.
He collapsed from a heart attack as he walked from the 18th hole to the clubhouse on a course just outside Madrid.
His golfing partner said: ‘Bing was happy and singing as he went around the course.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JESSIE WARE, 36. The singer- songwriter from London, daughter of Panorama reporter John Ware, penned her biggest hit, Say You Love Me, with Ed Sheeran. Ware ( right) is now as wellknown for her hit podcast, Table Manners, in which she interviews celebrities over dinner while bickering with her mother Lennie. RICHARD CARPENTER, 74. The American musician was one half of The Carpenters alongside younger sister Karen, notching up hits with (They Long To Be) Close To You and We’ve only Just Begun. After Karen died, aged 32 in 1983, three-times grammywinning composer, singer and producer Richard married his adopted cousin and had five children. He sometimes performs with them at Carpenters-related events.
BORN ON THIS DAY
MARIE SToPES (1880-1958). The botanist from Edinburgh opened Britain’s first birth control clinic in 1921 and co-founded the National Birth Control Council. The eccentric fossil expert wrote the bestseller Wise Parenthood. To encourage free thinking, she banned her son from reading books, and made him wear skirts until he was 11. ToNY HART (1925-2009). The cravat-wearing artist from Kent, whose sidekick was Plasticine character Morph, presented vision on, Take Hart and Hartbeat. He started out painting murals in restaurants in return for dinner. Hart (right) drew Blue Peter’s galleon logo and wanted a penny each time it was used, but was given a flat fee of £100 instead.
ON OCTOBER 15...
IN 1940, seven people were killed when a german bomb hit BBC’s Broadcasting House. It was heard live on air by millions of people listening to the 9 o’clock news. IN 1964, American composer Cole Porter, who wrote the musicals Kiss Me, Kate and Anything goes, died, aged 73.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Effulgent (c 1800) A) A yellowish golden haze. B) Radiant, shining brightly. C) A musical announcement of dawn, a song at sunrise. Answer below PHRASE EXPLAINED To stand in another man’s shoes: Meaning to empathise with someone; the earliest traces of the phrase relate to the Cherokee tribe of Native Americans, who said ‘don’t judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes’.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Al Capone, U.S. gangster (1899-1947)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT sits in custard looking miserable? Apple grumble. Guess The definition answer: B.