August 3, 2022 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE AUGUST 3, 1981
AFTER the ceremonial of the royal wedding, it was business as usual for Earl Spencer yesterday . . . greeting £1-a-head visitors at his stately home. ‘All I want now is for her [Princess Diana] to be happy and have a wonderful married life. Prince Charles, you know, is a very lucky man.’
AUGUST 3, 1984
SINGER Frank Sinatra (pictured) was branded an ‘obnoxious bully’ the night he and Dean Martin went on a gambling spree. Video cameras recorded them intimidating a dealer at a casino in Atlantic City.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
RYAN LOCHTE, 38. The winner of 12 Olympic medals, he is the second most decorated swimmer in history, behind fellow American Michael Phelps, and holds the world record in the 200-metre individual medley, long and short course. Lochte was suspended from the national swimming team for ten months after a drunken incident at the 2016 Olympics in Rio, when he damaged a petrol station sign and falsely reported he was robbed at gunpoint.
MARTHA STEWART, 81. The U.S. talkshow host, businesswoman and lifestyle guru was once called ‘ the definitive American woman of our time’. She became one of the most popular users ever on dating site Match.com when her profile was viewed more than 20,000 times in a week.
BORN ON THIS DAY
ANTHONY SAMPSON (1926-2004). The County Durham-born journalist and author of bestselling book Anatomy Of Britain said he could not quite remember his first meeting with Nelson Mandela in a drinking den because he was too drunk. But he went on to advise him on his last speech from the dock in 1964, before Mandela spent 27 years in prison. In the 1990s, Sampson became Mandela’s official biographer.
CECILE AUBRY ( 19282010). The French actress and ‘sex kitten’, who graced the cover of Life magazine, starred opposite Tyrone Power and Orson welles in The Black Rose. During its filming in Morocco, she met Si Brahim El glaoui, the eldest son of the Pasha of Marrakech, and they married in secret.
ON AUGUST 3...
IN 1971, Paul McCartney announced the formation of his new group, wings, with wife Linda.
IN 2020, diners enjoyed the first day of Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Eat Out To Help Out scheme to support the hospitality industry after the first Covid-19 lockdown.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Coronach (coined 1490s)
A) A song or lamentation for the dead.
B) A musical announcement of dawn, a song at sunrise.
C) A monarch’s crown.
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Beat the living daylights out of: to give someone a very severe beating; the term ‘daylights’ has been used to mean ‘eyes’ since the mid-18th century, and here the sense has been extended to vital organs.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
My own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose
J.B.S. Haldane, British-born
Indian scientist (1892-1964)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT do you call a vegetable heist? Farmed robbery.
Guess The Definition answer: A.