ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
OCTOBER 5, 1944
HOME GUARDS are to be allowed to keep their uniform after their final parade. Men will be allowed to retain the following items: Battledress, blouse and trousers, boots, anti-gas capes, anklets and forage caps. OCTOBER 5, 1956
ROCK ’N’ ROLL hit Paris for the first time last night at a St Germain-des-Pres club. When the dancers left at 3am, neighbours poured water over them from windows.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
GLYNIS JOHNS, 94, right. The South African- born Welsh actress is best known for her husky-voiced role as jolly suffragette Mrs Banks in Mary Poppins. Johns, who has married and divorced four times, outlived her only child, actor Gareth Forwood, who died aged 62 in 2007. STEPHANIE COLE, 76. The English actress has starred in Open All Hours, Tenko, Doc Martin and Coronation Street. She has specialised in playing battleaxes far older than her years. She was only 48 when she starred in sitcom Waiting For God as Diana, who was meant to be a pensioner. And Cole’s first stage role, aged 17, was as a 90-year-old opposite Leonard Rossiter.
BORN ON THIS DAY
JOCK STEIN (1922-1985). Stein left school at 15 and was a miner before becoming a footballer on £12 a week in 1950. He was the first non-Catholic manager of Celtic and led the side as they became the first British club to win the European Cup in 1967. He was Scotland’s manager when he had a fatal heart attack at the end of a 1-1 draw with Wales. Of picking a team, he said: ‘The secret of being a good manager is to keep the six players who hate you away from the five who are undecided.’ DONALD PLEASENCE (1919-1995). The Nottinghamshire-born actor (right) played James Bond villain Ernest Blofeld in You Only Live Twice and a prisoner of war in The Great Escape. Ironically, he was a real-life PoW, shot down over France while serving with the RAF in World War II and spent a year in the prison camp Stalag Luft I.
ON OCTOBER 5…
IN 1936, 200 men began the Jarrow Crusade, marching 300 miles from the North-East to London as a protest against unemployment and poverty.
IN 1947, President Harry Truman made the first televised White House address. He asked Americans not to eat meat on Tuesdays to help the U.S. stockpile grain for starving Europeans.
WORD WIZARDRY
NEW WORD OF THE DAY Cultrivorous (coined 1846) A) Anything very rickety and unsafe. B) Actual or illusory knife-swallowing. C) Bathing in the open air daily throughout the winter. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED In the doghouse:
Meaning in disgrace or out of favour, it comes from Peter Pan, the 1911 book by J. M. Barrie. The father of the family, Mr Darling, consigns himself to the dog’s kennel as an act of remorse for inadvertently causing his children to be kidnapped.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
if AnyThing is certain, it is that i am not a Marxist. Karl Marx, German political philosopher (1818-1883)
JOKE OF THE DAY
I SWALLOWED a sheep whole. it led to internal bleating. guess The Definition answer: B.