ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
FEBRUARY 20, 1947 ALL of us who have been feeling sorry for children because of a shortage of toys during the war can smile again. At the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition, opening at Olympia, Kensington, there will be a special section for children — Peter Pan’s Paradise. For the girls, there are life-like dolls again, and prams — even toy washing machines. FEBRUARY 20, 1967 MICK JAGGER, leader of the Rolling Stones pop group, and his girlfriend, singer Marianne Faithfull, were among eight people searched by police at a country house in Sussex. Fifteen police went to the weekend retreat of Rolling Stone Keith Richards. Substances taken from the house are being examined at Scotland Yard.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
CINDY CRAWFORD, 51. The U.S. supermodel (right) was discovered in 1982, aged 16, by a local newspaper photographer while picking corn near Chicago during a holiday job. After school, she won a scholarship to study chemical engineering at university, but dropped out to go into modelling full-time. SIDNEY POITIER, 90. The U.S. actor grew up in the Bahamas. He was the first black Best Actor Oscar winner for Lilies Of The Field in 1964 and became the top-grossing star of the era with In The Heat Of The Night, To Sir, With Love, and Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner (all released in 1967).
BORN ON THIS DAY
TONY WILSON ( 1950- 2007). The Salford-born broadcaster was known as Mr Manchester for co- founding Factory Records (of Joy Division and New Order fame) in the Seventies. He also set up The Hacienda nightclub, focus of the ‘Madchester’ scene. Both the label and club folded in the Nineties after losing millions. ANSEL ADAMS (1902-1984). The U.S. photographer, famous for his black-andwhite landscapes, broke his nose when he was four in a San Francisco earthquake. He was as obsessed with ideas as pictures, saying: ‘There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.’
ON FEBRUARY 20...
IN 1986, the Soviet Union launched the world’s biggest space station, Mir.
IN 1998, Tara Lipinski (right), of the U. S., became the youngest gold medallist in Winter Olympics history when she won the ladies’ figure skating title in Nagano, Japan, aged 15.
WORD WIZARDRY
NEW TERM OF THE DAY Bro hug: A friendly embrace between two men. GUESS THE DEFINITION To ecover (coined 1948) A) To re-knit worn socks. B) An excuse or evasion. C) An inexpensive and useless present. PHRASE EXPLAINED
Naked truth: The story goes that Truth and Falsehood went bathing and Falsehood came out of the water first and dressed herself in Truth’s clothes; Truth came out next but, being unwilling to put on the clothes of Falsehood, went naked.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
BITTERNESS is like cancer. it eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. it burns it all clean. Maya Angelou, U.S. writer (1928-2014)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT do you call a happy cowboy? A jolly rancher. Guess the Definition answer: C.