ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE APRIL 19, 1963
Too much spare time will be the great strain of the automation age, 200 handicraft teachers were told yesterday. It could become intolerable, said Mr Leonard richards, new president of the Institute of Handicraft Teachers.
APRIL 19, 2000
YOUNG career women are drinking more alcohol than ever before, it was revealed. but they try to balance their excesses with sessions of healthy living — the bridget Jones Syndrome, named after the heroine of Helen Fielding’s best-seller.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
LADY PAMELA HICKS, 95. The Spanish-born aristocrat was bridesmaid and ladyin-waiting to Elizabeth II. The youngest daughter of the 1st Earl Mountbatten married interior designer David Hicks. Following the Queen’s death, she is now the oldest living descendant of Queen Victoria.
DICKIE BIRD, 91. The Yorkshireborn former cricketer and umpire was friends with chat-show host Sir Michael Parkinson for 74 years. They were both sons of barnsley coal miners and said ‘ goodbye’ to each other before Parky’s death last year.
BORN ON THIS DAY
HUGH O’BRIAN (1925-2016). The U.S. actor played the title role in 1950s TV Western The Life And Legend of Wyatt Earp. He was born Hugh Krampe, but after a poster for a play ‘left the “m” out of Krampe . . . I didn’t want to go through life being known as Huge Krape’. So he took his mother’s name, o’brien, but it was misspelled as o’brian.
MICHEL ROUX (1941-2020). The French chef opened Le gavroche with brother Albert in chelsea in 1967 — it became britain’s first three Michelinstarred restaurant. The wine list of their Waterside Inn in berkshire — also three-star — was described as being ‘as high as the Eiffel Tower, with prices somewhat higher’.
ON APRIL 19…
IN 1986, george Michael, right, was at No 1 in the UK with A Different corner.
IN 1824, English poet Lord byron died in greece, aged 36.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION Crizzles (coined 1876)
A) Wax drips from a candle. b) White specks under fingernails. c) rough, sunburnt places on the face and hands. answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED
In my mind’s eye: meaning in my perceptive thought; the eye sees objects on the outside as well as inwardly. This was how Macbeth saw the dagger and Hamlet his deceased father, ‘in my mind’s eye’.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star.
Sir Elton John, singer-songwriter
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT has six eyes but can’t see a thing? Three blind mice.
Guess The Definition answer: C.