ON THIS DAY
April 25, 2022
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
APRIL 25, 1953
AT WINDSOR Castle last evening the Queen knighted Mr Churchill and invested him with the Order of the Garter. So from today Mr Churchill will be The Right Honourable Sir Winston Churchill, KG, OM, CH, MP.
APRIL 25, 1975
THE message to the women of Britain went out loud and clear from Mrs Margaret Thatcher yesterday… There is nothing like a dame! The Conservative leader told 500 women delegates to a London conference on Women and Power: ‘I cannot easily foresee the time when we have a woman Minister of Defence. But it would give me enormous joy to have the Navy singing “There is nothing like a dame”.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
RENÉE ZELLWEGER, 53. The Texan actress (right) has won two Oscars — for Cold Mountain and for playing Judy Garland in Judy. She almost missed accepting her Golden Globe for Nurse Betty as she was in the toilet. Rushing on stage, she said: ‘I had lipstick on my teeth!’ Co-star Hugh Grant said her accent for Bridget Jones’s Diary began as ‘quite a good British accent, but it was Princess Margaret’, then ‘Princess Margaret having had a stroke’, before nailing it. ROBERT PESTON, 62. ITV’s political editor wore a leather trenchcoat for his first outside broadcast as the BBC’s business editor. But it was dropped when a colleague said it was ‘a bit too SS’. He fell out with Tony Blair’s spin doctor Alastair Campbell, who once responded to him at a press conference with: ‘Another question from the Peston school of smart-arse journalism.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
JERRY LEIBER (1933-2011). Alongside longtime collaborator Mike Stoller, the U. S. lyricist penned Elvis Presley classics Jailhouse Rock and Hound Dog. Although he criticised Presley’s version of the latter as ‘terribly nervous, too fast — and too white’, it gave them their first major hit. JOY COVEY (1963-2013). The American helped take Amazon public as the online retailer’s chief financial officer. Fortune magazine said: ‘As CFO, her feat was convincing Wall Street that a profitless company was worth $22 billion.’ She died aged 50 when her bike collided with a van.
ON APRIL 25 …
IN 1968, Louis Armstrong (right) was enjoying his only UK No 1, What A Wonderful World. IN 1995, U.S. actress and dancer Ginger Rogers died, aged 83.
WORD WIZARDRIES
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Chrestomathy (c 1830) A) Divination by picking a passage of poetry at random. B) Divination by tossed pebbles.
C) A collection of selected literary passages. Answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED To pull yourself up by your own bootstraps: Meaning to improve your position by your own efforts. A ‘bootstrap’ can be sown into the back of boots to assist with putting them on.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies. Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (1899-1973)
JOKE OF THE DAY
DID you know that Captain Kirk had three ears? A left ear, a right ear and the final front ear. Guess The Definition answer: C. Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN
and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD