August 10, 2022 ON THIS DAY

FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE AUGUST 10, 1963

THE Great Train Robbers may have earlier sabotaged three high-security mail vans used on the Glasgow-London run. One by one, the vans were taken out of service to repair faults before Thursday’s £2½ million raid and replaced by older types.

AUGUST 10, 1979

CLOUDS hung low, the seas boiled and rain dripped dismally on to the pebbles. It was not, by anyone’s imagination, a nudist’s paradise. But last night Brighton Council agreed to have a nudist beach in the Sussex resort for a trial period of one year. Local councillor Eileen Jakes said: ‘I can’t wait to take all my clothes off.’

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

ROSANNA ARQUETTE, 63. The Bafta-winning U.S. actress starred in 1985 film Desperately Seeking Susan (right) and Pulp Fiction. The trait she most deplores in herself is ‘reactivity in anger instead of taking a breath. I can be explosive’. In 2019, she tweeted: ‘I’m sorry I was born white and privileged. It disgusts me. And I feel so much shame.’

LAWRENCE DALLAGLIO, 50. The Londonborn former England rugby union captain dedicated himself to the sport only after the death of his sister, Francesca, in the Thames Marchioness disaster when he was 16. He said: ‘Losing my sister was devastating. It made me more determined to do something to bring my parents together.’ As a child, he was in the King’s House choir and sang backing vocals on Tina Turner’s We Don’t Need Another Hero and in Evita on the West End stage.

BORN ON THIS DAY

RONNIE SPECTOR (19432022). The U.S. singer, born Veronica Bennett, was frontwoman of The Ronettes, who had hits with Be My Baby and Sleigh Ride. Spector, whose image and music inspired Amy Winehouse, said: ‘Every time I looked at her, it was like I was looking at myself. She had my beehive, my eyeliner, my attitude.’ She was married to record producer Phil Spector, who spent years abusing her.

NORMA SHEARER (1902-1983). The U.S. actress was nominated for five Oscars, winning one, for The Divorcee. After signing to MGM, she married executive Irving Thalberg and became one of the studio’s biggest stars. According to Hollywood gossip, camera trickery was used to hide the fact her eyes were not in perfect alignment.

ON AUGUST 10 . . .

IN 1932, canine film star Rin-Tin-Tin died, aged 13. IN 2005, James Blunt was enjoying his

only UK No.1, You’re Beautiful.

WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Cordiform (1750s)

A) Set out in a straight line. B) Heart-shaped. C) Tied together by a rope. answer below.

PHRASE EXPLAINED Fetch and carry:

meaning bringing things to someone in a subservient manner. It referred originally to a dog retrieving game that had been shot.

QUOTE FOR TODAY

I Only know that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after Ernest Hemingway, U.S. writer (1899-1961)

JOKE OF THE DAY

WHY did the PowerPoint presentation cross the road? To get to the other slide.

Guess The Definition answer: B.

Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD