MAY 6, 2017 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE MAY 6, 1930
THE Home Secretary has ordered a full inquiry into indecent postcards. The Mail drew his attention to the sale in shops and on piers at seaside resorts of cards which are crudely drawn and have no humour apart from that to be implied in titles with a double meaning. The Home Secretary’s inquiry will last for some time. The co-operation of chief constables has been invited.
MAY 6, 1969
AN EPISODE of the Dixon Of Dock Green TV series has been scrapped due to its subject: drugs. It starred Margaret Heald, 19, as a girl who becomes addicted after a party. ‘It is a firm policy decision now that the programme should never deal with drugs,’ said the BBC last night.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
THE MARQUESS of Bath, 85. Alexander Thynn (pictured), an author and erotic painter, has been nicknamed the ‘Loins of Longleat’. At the height of his womanising, he is said to have had 75 ‘wifelets’. In 2011, police were called to his stately home after two women became involved in a violent row — allegedly over who would share his bed that night. TONY BLAIR, 64. The former prime minister may be expecting his wife to serenade him today. For, in 2003, Cherie sang The Beatles’ When I’m 64 to Chinese students in Beijing. A friend at Oxford University once said Blair pulled down his shorts in a student prank and appeared to show off to women in the office over the road. ‘We never got a complaint,’ he added.
BORN ON THIS DAY
SIGMUND FREUD (18561939). The Austrian founding father of psychoanalysis ( pictured) was given his famous couch by a client. In 1925, he turned down $100,000 from movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn — who called him ‘the greatest love specialist in the world’ — to advise on a film about Antony and Cleopatra.
STEWART GRANGER (1913–1993). The London-born matinee idol and star of King Solomon’s Mines and The prisoner Of Zenda was told he was dying after being diagnosed with lung cancer. But an operation to remove a lung revealed he actually had TB and he lived for another decade.
ON MAY 6 . . .
IN 1889, the Eiffel Tower was officially opened to the public. IN 1954, roger Bannister, 25, became the first person to run a mile in less than four minutes (3 minutes, 59.4 seconds).
WORD WIZARDRY NEW WORD OF THE DAY
Phubbing — snubbing someone by looking at one’s phone instead of paying attention. GUESS THE DEFINITION Admiral of the narrow seas (coined in the 17th Century) A) One nervously affected by the privations of war service in the tropics. B) Officer who is always ready to take part in the social side of naval life. C) Drunkard who vomits over his neighbour at table. Answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED Bubble and squeak: Sound made by leftover vegetables from a roast dinner when fried.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
THE city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. Desmond Morris, anthropologist
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY did the golfer wear two pairs of pants? In case he got a hole in one. Guess The Definition answer: C.