ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
JULY 24, 1933 PROFESSOR EINSTEIN, the famous German mathematician, arrived in England from ostend without anybody recognising him, and he is determined, if possible, to make a short stay without being disturbed by any but his closest friends. His host is Commander oliver Locker-Lampson, MP, at whose cottage, tucked away somewhere between Esher and Cobham, Professor Einstein is carrying out mathematical studies.
JULY 24, 2000 TIGER WOODS made history at the home of golf yesterday by becoming the youngest player to complete a career Grand Slam. The 24-year-old American destroyed the best field in the world to win the first open of the new millennium by eight shots and set a record for the lowest score in a major. His 19-under-par total eclipsed Nick faldo’s winning mark of 18 below, also set at St Andrews, a decade ago.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Julia Bradbury, 50. The Dublin-born TV presenter, former host of Countryfile and Watchdog, left school at 16 and got her first TV job by writing to Janet StreetPorter and sending her a hotel towel (after hearing that she collected them). She has three children, a son named Zephyrus and twins Xanthe and Zena.
ELISABETH MOSS, 38. The double Emmy-winning u.S. actress, star of The West Wing and Mad Men, started acting aged six, in a TV series alongside Sandra Bullock. She only signed up to her leading role in The Handmaid’s Tale on the condition that she could be a producer and took the job so seriously she insisted on approving the shade of red of her character’s uniform. ‘I was so crazy that I made them fed-Ex me a fabric swatch so I could look at it in person,’ she said.
BORN ON THIS DAY
ZELDA FITZGERALD (1900-1948). The u.S. novelist and socialite was described as ‘the first American flapper’ by her husband, Great Gatsby author f. Scott fitzgerald. After their first meeting, he said of the trained ballerina: ‘I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.’ WILFRED JOSEPHS (1927-1997). The composer from Newcastle upon Tyne created scores for films Swallows & Amazons, All Creatures Great And Small, and more than 120 other TV shows. But he said: ‘To fellow professionals, we all know that I’m a pretty lousy pianist.’
ON JULY 24...
IN 1967, all four Beatles and manager Brian Epstein signed a full-page advert in The Times calling for legalisation of marijuana and describing the law as ‘immoral in principle and unworkable in practice’.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Usufruct (c 1625)
A) Broken to pieces. B) At random. C) The legal right to enjoy all the advantages derivable from the use of something that belongs to another. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
To pull out all the stops: Meaning to make a very great effort to achieve something; it’s an allusion to organ stops, which are pulled out to turn on each set of sounds; when all are pulled out, the organ will play all the possible sounds simultaneously, very loudly.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett, U.S. investor
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY did the tap dancer have to retire? He kept falling in the sink. Guess The Definition answer: C.