June 14, 2021 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JUNE 14, 1947
CHARLIE CHAPLIN and edward G. Robinson will be subpoenaed to answer charges of communist interests in hollywood before the congress committee on Un-American Activities. Author Miss Dorothy Parker will be called to give evidence in September.
JUNE 14, 1984
LONDON Bridge has always proved irresistible to visitors and yesterday 2,900 ton Navy frigate HMS Jupiter crashed into it, dislodging a granite section by 8in and denting her side. Jupiter has only been in service for three months after a four-year, £68million refit.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
PAUL O’GRADY, 66. The comedian and TV presenter from Birkenhead found fame as alter ego lily Savage. he started out as a civil servant, then worked as a social worker and in an abattoir. O’Grady won a Bafta for ITV’s The Paul O’Grady Show and said: ‘Somebody called me the edith Piaf of daytime TV, which I loved. Drama after drama.’ he would like the The Avengers theme played at his funeral. MIKE YARWOOD, 80. The cheshire-born comic and impressionist had a TV series for 17 years until the 1990s, attracting audiences of up to 22 million. The Queen is said to have delayed her christmas meal to watch his festive special. yarwood asked guest Paul Mccartney if he could go to the BBC canteen to show him off. The former Beatle replied: ‘have you not thought I might want to be seen with you?’
BORN ON THIS DAY
JUDITH KERR ( 19232019). The German-born British author and illustrator of When hitler Stole Pink Rabbit and the Mog books fled the Nazis with her family as a child. Theories abounded about the meaning of her The Tiger Who came To Tea. The BBC’S emily Maitlis asked her if the big cat was a metaphor for ‘the 1960s sexual revolution when . . . suburban life became upended by this wild and exotic creature’, but kerr insisted it was just a tiger who liked tea. DOROTHY MCGUIRE (1916-2001). The U.S. actress starred with Gary cooper and Gregory Peck and played the Virgin Mary in The Greatest Story ever Told. Asked why McGuire didn’t become more famous, co-star loretta young said: ‘I’ll tell you why . . . I wanted to be a star; Dorothy wanted to be an actress.’ McGuire went against her ‘sweet’ image to play an older woman who seduces a war veteran in 1946 film Till The end Of Time. It flopped and she said: ‘I went right back to playing nice girls and faithful wives.’
ON JUNE 14 . . .
IN 1968, the BBC’S Basil Brush Show, featuring the glove puppet fox first aired.
IN 1995, Pauline clare became Britain’s first female chief constable — of lancashire.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE CORRECT DEFINITION: Fealty (c late 13th century) A) Fiery sermon. B) Feudal tenant’s sworn loyalty. c) Dishonesty. Answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Stockholm syndrome: Refers to hostages who form an attachment to their captors. It derives from when this happened to captives taken by Stockholm bank robbers in 1973.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.
Cher, U.S. singer and actress
JOKE OF THE DAY
I ORDERED a chicken and an egg from Amazon. I’ll let you know... Guess the definition answer: B.