ON THIS DAY
January 13, 2018
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
JANUARY 13, 1942 THE Government has worked out ‘dos and don’ts’ for housewives, which will come into force in March. For example, if buying groceries from shops within a mile of your home, you must take them home yourself rather than having them delivered. The rules will save 10,000,000 gallons of petrol a year, many tons of rubber, plus manpower. JANUARY 13, 1967 LINDA WOOD, 20, was awarded £950 damages yesterday after a judge was told she cannot wear mini-skirts due to scars on her left knee, caused when a van hit the motorcycle she was riding pillion on. Peter Thomas, QC, said: ‘She has shapely legs and the scarring is permanent. Prevailing fashion, though one doesn’t know how long it will last, is for short skirts. She doesn’t subscribe to it because her knees would be visible and the disfigurement obvious.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
CAROL CLEVELAND, 76. The Rada-trained actress (right) began in beauty contests — winning the Miss Butlin’s and Miss Paddington Shopping Queen titles — and was a Playboy bunny. She appeared in two-thirds of Monty Python’s Tv shows and each film of their films, playing everyone from Mrs Attila the Hun to a woman in love with a pantomime horse. Described as the seventh and only female Python, she called herself ‘a sort of glamour stooge’. BILL BAILEY, 54. The English comedian has described himself as ‘part troll’. He was born Mark Bailey but given his nickname by a school music teacher after playing Bill Bailey, Won’t you Please Come Home on guitar. Bailey once quit comedy to sell magazine adverts, but returned after being fired for refusing to wear a tie.
BORN ON THIS DAY
MICHAEL BOND (19262017). Like his creation, Paddington Bear, the English author (right) would stop every day for elevenses (Waitrose hot cross buns, in his case). This week, a train was named after Bond at Paddington Station, where a statue of his bear already stands. He bought the teddy that inspired the character from Selfridges on Christmas Eve, 1956, for his then wife. They shared custody after divorcing, but Bond said: ‘When he’s not there, life doesn’t seem quite right.’ ROBERT STACK (1919-2003). The U.S. actor won an Emmy for playing prohibitionera lawman Eliot Ness in Tv’s The Untouchables, and appeared in the 1980 movie Airplane! Stack set world records for clay pigeon shooting and was a U.S. Navy World War II gunnery instructor.
ON JANUARY 13…
IN 1930, Mickey Mouse made his first appearance in a newspaper comic strip. IN 1942, Helmut Schenck was the first pilot to use an ejector seat successfully.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Dop (1764) A) Cup to hold a diamond as it is cut. B) Lively jig. C) villain in a play. Answer below PHRASE EXPLAINED
To hit a snag: To come up against an unexpected difficulty. Derives from an old Scandinavian word for a spike.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
DANIEL CRAIG is a far grittier Bond. I mean he looks like a killer. Whereas, I look like a decrepit lover. Sir Roger Moore, English actor and former 007 (1927-2017)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT do triangles have in common with hipsters? They’re so edgy. Guess The Definition answer: A.