ON THIS DAY
January 10, 2024
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
JANUARY 10, 1946
MR WINSTON Churchill and Mrs Churchill sailed in the Queen Elizabeth from Southampton today for a holiday in the U.S. He said it was a purely health trip. ‘i have had a lot of colds and coughs during the winter,’ he said, ‘and my doctor thought it would be a good thing for me to have a few months’ rest. i think i have earned it.’ JANUARY 10, 1991 THE world’s most elegant woman was named yesterday as Princess Caroline of Monaco (right). Princess
Diana took second place. Elizabeth Taylor came top, too, but in a list of the least elegant women. Second to her was Madonna. A panel selected by Paris-Match magazine put together the lists.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
TONY SOPER, 95. The writer and broadcaster co-founded the BBC’s Natural History Unit, was its first wildlife cameraman and film producer and co-presented Johnny Morris’s Animal Magic. Soper said he was very proud of how the unit survived decades of change, ‘ but i think their scriptwriting needs a kick up the pants’. SIR ROD STEWART, 79.
The London-born singersongwriter has topped the charts with Maggie May,
Sailing and you Wear it
Well. Last month, he was said to have put his luxury
LA villa on the market to return to the UK for more privacy. in 2022, he was spotted repairing potholes near his Essex home, saying the authorities ‘couldn’t be bothered to do it’.
BORN ON THIS DAY
DAME BARBARA HEPWORTH (19031975). The Wakefield-born sculptor was a key figure in the 1930s British abstract movement alongside Henry Moore, who dismissed her work as a ‘poor affair’. Her second husband, artist Ben Nicholson, said he had ‘never seen anything so beautiful’ as the look on her face as she worked. SAL MiNEO (1939-1976). The U.S. actor, who starred in The Longest Day, was Oscarnominated for Rebel Without A Cause, aged 17, and Exodus. He also had a 1957 UK Top 20 hit with Start Movin’ (in My Direction). Mineo dated Exodus co-star Jill Haworth until she discovered he was bisexual. Aged 37, he was stabbed to death by a robber in his apartment’s garage.
ON JANUARY 10 . . .
IN 1917, Buffalo Bill, Wild West showman and global celebrity, died aged 70.
IN 1958, Jerry Lee Lewis was at UK No 1 with Great Balls Of Fire.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION:
Nictitate (coined 1820s)
A) A candle dripping wax. B) To smell like burnt flesh. C) To blink.
Answer Below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED
White feather: meaning cowardice and referring to a gamecock with a white tail feather, said, in cockfighting, to be a sign of cross-breeding and a lack of courage.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.
Nelson Mandela, former President of
South Africa (1918-2013)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY do potatoes make good detectives? Because they keep their eyes peeled. Guess The Definition answer: C.