ON THIS DAY
September 19, 2018
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
SepTembeR 19, 1945 BANANAS are coming back soon. This is the high-spot of this morning’s good food news from Sir Ben Smith, Food Minister. The first large shipment from Jamaica is due early in the New Year. The fruit will be for children only at first. SepTembeR 19, 1964 THe BeATLeS hit Dallas...or did Big D hit the Beatles? George Harrison and John Lennon are victims of the roughest, toughest welcome yet on their American tour. George tries to duck but seconds later he is on the floor, trampled by his fans. In a frenzy, John is punched and kicked.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
TwIGGY, 69. The model (right) from Neasden, London, was regarded as the face of the Sixties. She was once seated at a dinner next to Princess Margaret, who asked her name. ‘I must have had one of the most famous faces on the planet,’ Twiggy recalled. ‘“well Ma’am,” I said, “my real name is Lesley Hornby, but most people call me Twiggy.” Her Royal Highness said: “How unfortunate,” and turned away.’ Twiggy is also an actress and won two Golden Globe awards for her role in the 1971 romantic musical The Boy Friend. KATe ADIe, 73. The former war reporter and presenter of Radio 4’s From Our Own Correspondent has covered so many conflicts — the Falklands, Tiananmen Square, the Gulf war, former Yugoslavia — for the BBC that British soldiers used to joke that if she arrived they knew they were in trouble. She was shot four times and said: ‘Little bits of me are missing, nothing vital.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
BRIAN ePSTeIN (19341967). The Liverpool-born manager of The Beatles (right) was key to their success, but also made commercial mistakes, including signing away their merchandising rights for just a ten per cent cut of profits. Sir Paul McCartney said: ‘If anyone was the “Fifth Beatle”, it was Brian.’ GeORGe CADBURY (1839-1922). A Quaker and pacifist, the chocolate manufacturer established Bournville near Birmingham as a model community with affordable homes and gardens for his workers, saying: ‘No man ought to live in a place where a rose cannot grow.’ The Cadbury Brothers made their first milk chocolate in 1897.
ON SEPTEMBER 19...
IN 1893, New Zealand became the first selfgoverning country to grant women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
IN 1946, winston Churchill called for the creation of a Council of europe in a speech in Zurich, in which he said: ‘we must build a kind of United States of europe.’
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Olitory (1894) A) Trivial. B) Belonging to a kitchen garden. C) Relating to oil. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Esprit de l’escalier: Meaning ‘staircase wit’, it refers to the situation where, having left a room, one is often halfway down the stairs — after the opportunity has passed — before a witty remark or retort comes to mind.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
The chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them, and sometimes three. Alexandre Dumas, French writer (1802-1870)
JOKE OF THE DAY
MY OBeSe parrot just died. It is a huge weight off my shoulders. Guess The Definition answer: b.