July 28, 2022 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JULY 28, 1971
PRINCE CHARLES makes his first parachute jump today — into the Channel from 1,200 ft. Royal Marines will be in boats ready to pick him up. The Prince, 22, could have opted out, but insisted on being treated the same as other RAF cadets.
JULY 28, 1984
BRITISH film actor James Mason, died of a heart attack yesterday, aged 75. his credits included The Wicked lady, The Man In Grey, lolita and A Star Is Born, for which he was nominated for an Oscar.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
JIM DAVIS, 77. The U. S. cartoonist created Garfield the comicstrip cat read by 200 million people daily (including in the Mail — see page 54). Davis, when asked the secret of his career’s longevity, compared with many of his contemporaries, said: ‘It’s simple, they put all this pressure on themselves, trying to write the perfect gag every single day. Me? I start to feel that kind of stress and I just lower my standards.’ MICHAEL CARRICK, 41. The EXMANCHESTER United captain and caretaker manager played 464 games for the club, winning five Premier league titles, the FA Cup, two league Cups, the Champions league, europa league and Club World Cup. Sir Alex Ferguson called him ‘the best english player’, yet he turned out for his country at just one major tournament.
BORN ON THIS DAY
ALEXIS ARQUETTE (19692016). The U. S. actress, born Robert, was in films including The Wedding Singer and Tv’s Roseanne and Friends. The child of Waltons star lewis Arquette and sibling of actors Rosanna, Patricia and David, came out as ‘gender suspicious’ in 2006. Arquette once said: ‘Men and women are very, very similar, and I think the closer we can get to one another, the more we’ll understand a lot of these issues.’ BARBARA LA MARR (18961926). The American silent star and screenwriter, dubbed the ‘too beautiful girl’, had Douglas Fairbanks Sr and Rudolph valentino among her leading men. She married three times, divorced and was widowed by age 19, and wed twice more in her 20s. She said: ‘I take lovers like roses — by the dozen.’ la Marr cowrote and produced 1923’s The eternal City, starring herself and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. She died at 29.
ON JULY 28…
IN 1988, Paddy Ashdown became the Social and liberal Democrats’ first leader. IN 2004, British biologist Francis Crick, who with James Watson and Rosalind Franklin proposed the double helix structure of DNA, died, aged 88.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Cenote (c1840) A) Deep natural well or sinkhole. B) A gemstone. C) Spur attached to the heel of a fighting cockerel. answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED The end justifies the means: meaning unfair methods can be used if the overall goal is good. The idea was first expressed by Ovid in heroides.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up. Rex Stout, U.S. writer (1886-1975)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT happened to the scientist who broke the speed of light while driving? He was sent to prism.
Guess The Definition answer: a.