June 3, 2022 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JUNE 3, 1977
FEELING down? Fed up with the rat race? Need a boost? Then watch this space . . .
The job as Britain’s first astronaut will be appearing in the Sits. Vac. columns within days. Candidates must be 47 or under, in ‘excellent physical condition’ and have a degree in science or engineering. The successful space-person will carry out experiments in metallurgy and astronomy and study the Sun and Earth’s atmospheres.
JUNE 3, 2015
FORMER lib-Dem leader Charles Kennedy
was found dead by his secret girlfriend. According to friends, Mr Kennedy, 55, was in a relationship with Carole MacDonald, widow of his friend Murdo MacDonald. Colleagues said Westminster’s heavy drinking culture bore some blame for his passing. Mr Kennedy, who fought a long battle against alcoholism, was ‘heartbroken’ at the loss of his lib Dem seat to the SNP last month.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JAMES PUREFOY, 58. The Somerset-born actor burst into laughter when asked if he had been digitally altered for his nude scenes in TV series rome: ‘I won’t say whose it was, but there was a penis that may have been enhanced. But mine’s all mine, I’m afraid.’ JIll BIDEN, 71. The U.S. First lady, a former teacher, waited for Joe’s fifth proposal before agreeing to marry. last year, in an April Fool’s prank on the Press and Secret Service agents, she put on a black wig and pretended to be a flight attendant called Jasmine, handing out ice-cream bars on a plane to Washington.
BORN ON THIS DAY
ALLEN GINSBERG (1926-1997). The U.S. Beat writer, who coined the term ‘flower power’, is best known for his poem Howl, ‘considered a revolutionary event in American poetry’. He was listed by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as a dangerous subversive in the 1960s. lIlI ST. CYr (1918-1999). The American ‘striptease artiste’ was charged with indecent exposure for her bubble bath routines in a club on Sunset Boulevard, but later acquitted. She married six times and said: ‘Sex is currency. What’s the use of being beautiful if you can’t profit from it?’ She is said to have inspired Marilyn Monroe.
ON JUNE 3…
IN 1961, Elvis Presley was enjoying his fourth
consecutive UK No 1, with Surrender. IN 1977, Bob Marley And The Wailers released Exodus, named by Time magazine as the best album of the 20th century.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Casuistic (1650s) A) Happy-go-lucky. B) Over-subtle; intellectually dishonest. C) Accidentally.
answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED To make the cut:
meaning to come up to a required standard; it derives from golf in which a player has to equal or better a set score to avoid elimination from the last two rounds of a four-round match.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
Then UK Prime Minister John Major in February 1993
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT kind of dog likes taking a bath every day? a shampoodle. Guess The Definition answer: B. Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD