ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JANUARY 11, 1957
The great switch over to Independent Television continues. Ninety-six per cent of programmes in the ‘Top Ten’ lists in 1956 were on ITV. No BBC programme has made one of the lists since September 4, when Swiss film Four In A Jeep rated second place in the Midlands.
JANUARY 11, 1977
A LONG-STANDING feud between three ex-Beatles and their former manager has ended with a £3million out-of-court settlement. last night tough-talking Allen Klein — the man who gets the money — paid tribute to the ‘Kissingerlike’ diplomacy of John lennon’s 42-yearold Japanese wife, Yoko ono (above). he said: ‘That woman is extraordinary.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JAMIE VARDY, 35. The Sheffield-born leicester City footballer led his team to win the Premier league in 2016. he revealed he once hampered his recovery from injury imbibing his signature drink: ‘I had a three-litre vodka bottle at home I would put loads of Skittles sweets in.’
RACHEL RILEY, 36. The essex-born maths whizz was only in her first job — as an analyst at a price comparison website — for a few months before securing her role on Channel 4’s Countdown. last month, rachel (right) was awarded £10,000 damages by a high Court judge after suing a former aide to Jeremy Corbyn for libel over a tweet that said she was as ‘dangerous as she is stupid’.
BORN ON THIS DAY
JOHN SESSIONS (1953-2020). The radatrained comedian from Ayrshire appeared in panel shows Whose line Is It Anyway? and QI. As an actor, he played Sir geoffrey howe in the 2009 Thatcher biopic Margaret. Stephen Fry said: ‘he could make me laugh until I was sick and dizzy.’
CHRISTINE KAUFMANN (1945-2017). The actress was the first Austrian to win a golden globe — for her debut in 1961’s Town Without Pity. Kaufmann was the second of Tony Curtis’s six wives, despite a 20-year age gap. It was the first of her four marriages and she later said she had had an affair with actor Warren Beatty.
ON JANUARY 11 …
IN 1964, luther Terry, then-u.S. surgeon general, published his report proving a link between smoking and cancer.
IN 1986, Pet Shop Boys notched up their first of four UK No 1s, with West end girls.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Suds (coined 1540s)
A) Wax drips from a candle. B) Soapy water. C) The frayed and unravelled ends of a rope. Answer below PHRASE EXPLAINED
Coign of vantage: means a favourable position for observation or action; the literary sense of ‘coign of vantage’ is a projecting corner of a wall or building. The phrase appears in Shakespeare’s Macbeth; ‘coign’ is now mainly used in this phrase while ‘quoin’, meaning an external angle of a building, is more common.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
The newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct.
Walter Lippmann, U.S. writer (1889-1974)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY are jokes about lifts so funny?
They work on many levels.
GUESS The Definition answer: B. Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD