ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
JUNE 4, 1962 ACCUSATIOnS of doping, threats by certain countries never to compete again, referees sending an ultimatum, 37 players on the injured list, and four sent off — that’s the scandalous tale this morning after only 12 of 32 World Cup games have been played.
These championships have become football thuggery, played by half-crazed, frightened men driven to extremes by team managers scared of defeat. JUNE 4, 1965 COME On, come get back in! That was the order that went out from Cape Kennedy today to Major Edward White [who became the first American astronaut to walk in space] as he gambolled around 100 miles over the United States.
And in the Gemini 4 spacecraft his partner and pilot, Major James McDivitt, repeatedly urged White: ‘Come in, boy. You’ve still got 3 and a half more days yet.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
BRADLEY WALSH, 60. The actor, comedian, singer and TV presenter from Watford, has been in everything from Coronation Street to Doctor Who and ITV game show The Chase. The former Pontins Bluecoat started out as a professional footballer, signing to Brentford in 1978, but was forced to give up due to ankle injuries.
MICHELLE PHILLIPS, 76. The U.S. singer-songwriter is the last surviving original member of The Mamas And The Papas, who had hits with California Dreamin’ and Monday, Monday. An icon of the psychedelic Sixties, Phillips was married to bandmate, John Phillips, and had an affair with another, Denny Doherty. She was the second of actor Dennis Hopper’s five wives and had a relationship with Warren Beatty.
BORN ON THIS DAY
MORGAnA KInG (1930-2018). The jazz singer and actress from new York, born Maria Grazia Morgana Messina, played Carmela Corleone, Marlon Brando’s character’s wife, in the Godfather films. King said that having read the novel: ‘I went to my hypnotist to programme and condition myself for becoming a member of the cast.’
JOHn DREW BARRYMORE (1932-2004). The American actor was a member of ‘Hollywood’s First Family’, the son of actors John Barrymore and Dolores Costello and the father of E.T. star Drew Barrymore. She described their relationship as ‘abusive and just chaotic’. Barrymore was jailed several times for drink-driving and drugs offences.
ON JUNE 4…
IN 1798, Italian adventurer and womaniser Giacomo Casanova died, aged 73.
IN 1913, suffragette Emily Davison was trampled after standing in front of the King’s horse at the Epsom Derby.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Nekton (c1890)
A) A group term for aquatic animals B) A cylindrical curl on a wig C) The inside jacket pocket Answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED: Big stick diplomacy — negotiations backed up with a threat of force; coined in 1901 by Theodore Roosevelt quoting an African proverb: ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far’.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway, writer (1899-1961)
JOKE OF THE DAY
HAVE you heard about the prawn who went to a disco? He pulled a mussel. Guess the Definition answer: A