ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
aPRIl 4, 1996
IT’S a look more usually favoured by building site workers, but as worn by Kate Moss on a New York catwalk it becomes the height of fashion. The supermodel was wearing a vest and low-slung trousers known as bumsters at a show by British designer Alexander McQueen.
aPRIl 4, 2003
ALLIED troops have seized Saddam International Airport, ten miles from Baghdad, it was reported last night. U.S. troops swept on to the tarmac after meeting little resistance. An American reporter with them said he saw Iraqis waving and cheering. The success will let the Allies fast-forward infantry to the front line by air.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
CLIvE DAvIS, 92. The U.S. founder of Arista Records signed everyone from Whitney Houston to P. Diddy. One interviewer said he had ‘an uncanny resemblance to Frank Butcher from EastEnders, right down to the gold jewellery, tinted specs and garishly patterned cardi’. JANE McDONALD, 61.
The Yorkshire-born Tv presenter found fame on the BBC docusoap The Cruise. She said her friend, a spiritualist medium, predicted her success years earlier.
He said: ‘I can see you going on a ship and I can see cameras. You are going to be the pioneer for it and have your own prime-time Tv show.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
ELIzABETH WILSON (1921-2015). The U.S. actress starred in The Graduate and 9 To 5. She once turned down a multi-year movie contract when it came with the conditions that ‘my nose was too big and they wanted me to have surgery. My jaw was crooked, and I’d have to have that fixed, too’. Her career lasted almost 70 years. ELMER BERNSTEIN (1922-2004). The U.S. conductor, ‘perhaps Hollywood’s most prolific composer’, scored more than 200 films — including The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape. He was nominated for 14 Oscars, but only won one, for Thoroughly Modern Millie in 1968.
ON APRIL 4…
IN 1925, Adolf Hitler’s Schutzstaffel, or SS, was formed.
IN 1995, English broadcaster Kenny Everett died, aged 50.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION Tritanopia (coined 1915)
A) A rare form of colour blindness. B) Fear of plastics. C) Act of walking backwards. answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
In limbo: means to be in an uncertain place, state or situation; comes from the belief that unbaptised infants were unable to go to Heaven or Hell (as they were without sin).
QUOTE FOR TODAY
They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well, my parts have done me pretty well, darling.
Dame Barbara Windsor, English actress (1937-2020)
JOKE OF THE DAY
THERE was a fight outside my local chippy . . . The fish got battered. Guess The Definition answer: a.