ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE SEPTEMBER 21, 1945
LoNdoNerS will soon be dining and dancing in evening dress. The wartime ‘ban’ on people seeking admittance to leading hotels and restaurants in lounge suits and afternoon dresses is returning.
SEPTEMBER 21, 2010
BrITISH troops ‘did not die in vain’ taking
and holding Sangin, said david Cameron yesterday, as they hand over to U.S. forces. Senior military officials are desperate for the pull-out — in an area where 106 Britons have been killed over four years — not to be seen as an admission of defeat.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Joe WICkS, 35. The Surrey-born fitness trainer, The Body Coach, right, is said to be worth £14.5million and last year gained the Guinness World record for most viewers for a live YouTube workout (nearly one million). He gave profits from the lockdown sessions to the NHS. When he first saw his wife, glamour model rosie Jones, ‘on Page 3 of The Sun’ he thought, ‘She’s so beautiful. If I get to meet her one day, that’d be amazing.’
MArTA kAUffMAN, 65. The U.S. TV writer and producer co-created the sitcom friends and wrote Netflix comedy Grace And frankie. As a child she put on shows with Barbie dolls, but was written off early: ‘My english teacher at high school said I was the least perceptive person and that I would never be a writer.’ British actress Miriam Margolyes said she never watched friends after meeting kauffman at a party: ‘I thought she was a monster. So I thought, b **** r it, I’m not watching that!’
BORN ON THIS DAY
JoHN LoUdoN McAdAM (1756-1836). The civil engineer from Ayrshire came up with the macadam road surface by sealing tops of roads with small stones, after becoming frustrated with the quality of local highways. He was made Britain’s ‘surveyor general of metropolitan roads’ but declined a knighthood. By the time of his death, ‘macadam’ was used to describe the roads he pioneered. When replaced by asphalt or tar, the new surface was called tar-macadam, soon shortened to tarmac.
HeNrY GIBSoN (1935-2009). The 5ft 3in U.S. actor and comedian, right, found fame on 1960s TV comedy rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In and in the films Nashville, Magnolia and The Blues Brothers. He also starred in TV hits Bewitched, Magnum PI and knight rider. He joined a theatre company at eight and was a U.S. Air force intelligence officer before training at rAdA in London.
ON SEPTEMBER 21...
IN 1980, robert Hughes presented the first part of The Shock of The New, a BBC series on modern art. IN 1986, Prince Charles admitted in a TV interview that he chatted to his plants.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Gladiate (coined c1790) A)To beam, to radiate. B) To fight. C) Sword-shaped. Answer below PHRASE EXPLAINED Corpsing: British theatrical slang for forgetting one’s lines or laughing uncontrollably on stage.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised. Will Durant, American writer (1885-1981)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT did the angry Italian waiter give the customer? A pizza his mind. Guess The Definition answer: C