ON THIS DAY
January 24, 2018
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
JANUARY 24, 1957 BRITISH housewives do not know how to buy food, have lost their sense of value for money and cannot judge quality, food makers and retailers said yesterday at the Food Packaging Convention at Olympia. But the housewife was not wholly to blame. A survey showed that what she wants is assurance the label shows what’s inside. She hates to find, on opening a pack of bacon, a large piece of fat between two lean rashers. JANUARY 24, 1969 JUDy GARLAND stormed off stage at London’s Talk Of The Town early today after a man in the audience stepped up, grabbed the microphone and said: ‘Why don’t you apologise to the audience?’ Garland, 46 (pictured), had kept them waiting 80 minutes. As soon as the singer, who is getting £3,000 a week [about £47,800 today], appeared, the crowd began hurling empty cigarette packets and rubbish from their ashtrays on to the stage.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JOOLS HOLLAND, 60. The London-born broadcaster and pianist — real name Julian — formed Squeeze as a teenager after being expelled from grammar school for damaging a teacher’s Triumph Herald. In 1986, he was suspended as host of Channel 4’s The Tube when he said on a live trailer at 5pm: ‘Be there or be an ungroovy f **** r.’ His BBC2 show Later...With Jools Holland has been on our screens since 1992. ADRIAN EDMONDSON, 61. The actor and comedian, who played punk Vyvyan in The young Ones in the Eighties, says he’s ‘far too middle-class’ to have been one in real life. He is married to fellow comic Jennifer Saunders and won Celebrity MasterChef in 2013.
BORN ON THIS DAY
FARINELLI (1705-1782). The Italian ‘castrato’ was the most famous opera singer of the 18th century. Christened Carlo Broschi, he took the surname of his benefactors, the brothers Farina, as his stage name. At the time, up to 4,000 Italian boys a year were castrated to stop their voices breaking in puberty — partly because women were banned from singing in churches. HADRIAN (76-138). The Roman emperor, famous for his 70-mile wall across Britain, was also the first leader of Rome not to hide his gay lover, Antinous. After he drowned in the Nile, Hadrian named a city, Antinopolis, after him.
ON JANUARY 24…
IN 2001, Northern Ireland secretary Peter Mandelson resigned from the Cabinet in disgrace for the second time, after revelations that he assisted in a passport application for an Indian billionaire.
IN 2011, Adele (pictured) released her second album, 21. It topped the UK charts for 23 weeks — a record for a female solo artist — and became Britain’s best-selling album of the 21st century selling 3.4million copies in just ten months.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Jarg (1513) A) A witty person B) Small cavity in a rock C) Creaking or grating noise Answer below PHRASE EXPLAINED
The final straw: When small extra burdens finally become too much. From the 17thcentury idea that if a camel’s load is increased straw by straw, at some point one more would ‘break the camel’s back’.