July 12, 2022 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JUly 12, 1989
THe Prince of Wales was accused by a top architect last night of cowardliness in his ‘renunciation of the new in favour of the old’. In his inaugural speech as president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Maxwell Hutchinson took issue with the Prince, who has made his distaste for modern design widely known.
JUly 12, 1995
HUGH GRANT was fined £760 and placed on two years’ unsupervised probation when he appeared in court in Los Angeles yesterday for lewd conduct. It followed Grant’s arrest last month after being found having sex in a car with prostitute Divine Brown.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
GABy ROSLIN, 58. The London-born BBC radio presenter said when she went on a family holiday to Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River as a child, an African witch doctor with no concept of TV or radio forecast her future as somebody who ‘everybody will be watching’. SIR GAReTH eDWARDS, 75. The Welsh former rugby union star, who won 53 caps for his country from 1967 to 1978, was knighted in 2015. The ‘scrum half who had it all’ became Wales’s youngest captain at just 20. After being named BBC Wales Sports Personality of the year and retiring, he was a captain on TV quiz Question of Sport. In 2002, he was voted the greatest Welsh player of all time.
BORN ON THIS DAY
KATHy STAFF (1928-2008). The actress from Cheshire played Doris Luke in ITV soap Crossroads and battleaxe Nora Batty in BBC sitcom Last Of The Summer Wine, where she ended up being hailed as ‘television’s unlikeliest sex symbol’. Co-star Peter Sallis said: ‘She dominated anything she was in. you could stop acting when Kathy was there because she was going to do it all for you.’ MILTON BeRLe (1908-2002). The U.S. actor and comedian, whose showbiz career began aged five, had an 80-year career taking in TV, radio, stage, film and songwriting. Berle played himself in Woody Allen film Broadway Danny Rose. He admitted to stealing others’ jokes, quipping of one: ‘I laughed so hard I nearly dropped my pencil.’
ON JULY 12…
IN 1939, the BBC’s It’s That Man Again, featuring music hall star Tommy Handley, first aired. It would become the best-loved radio programme of the war period. IN 1979, U.S. singer-songwriter Minnie Riperton (who had a hit with Lovin’ you) died of cancer, aged just 31.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE CORRECT DEFINITION: Zumping (coined 2020)
A) The act of ending a relationship by telling the other person during a video call. B) Harnessing oneself inside an inflatable PVC ball, then rolling a long way downhill. C) Offering malware that demands a payment to switch it off answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED Fair dinkum:
meaning genuine or true; or, of behaviour, acceptable. Dinkum is a 19thcentury english dialect word meaning ‘hard work’ or ‘honest toil’, that now occurs typically in Australian and New Zealand expressions of someone being worthwhile.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
yOU may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise. Maya Angelou, U.S. writer and civil rights activist (1928-2014)
JOKE OF THE DAY
DO yOU know how much a chimney costs? Nothing. It’s on the house. Guess the Definition answer: a
Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD