ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE NOVEMBER 6, 1965
RICHARD DIMBlEBy has been suffering from cancer for five years, his son David Dimbleby said last night. ‘My father asked me to explain this because he is strongly opposed to the idea of cancer being an unmentionable disease. The reason he has not mentioned it is that he has not lost a single day’s work because of it.’
NOVEMBER 6, 1970
PRINCE CHARlES faced 5,000 of Britain’s top businessmen yesterday and said: ‘It’s up to you to bridge the generation gap.’ The Prince, speaking to the Institute of Directors, added: ‘For this distinguished company to be lectured by a mere 22-year-old on the problems of parenthood is one of the ultimate indignities you must suffer from irreverent youth. If your children want to alter society, listen to their ideals: don’t crush them with some clever remark right away.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
SAlly FIElD, 72. The double Oscar-winning U.S. actress (right) started out in TV and said she used to be seen as ‘way too cute’ for films — but having made movies that have collected more than $2 billion at the box office, she made it onto the list of the top 15 highest-grossing actresses in film history. Field, who had a relationship with Burt Reynolds, said: ‘I always wanted to be a great actor. I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish — there was a bit of nobility about her.’ PJ PROBy, 80. Born James Smith, the U.S. singer-songwriter, who had several UK topten hits, saw his career plunge when he split his trousers at a london concert in 1965. When he did it again in Northampton a few days later, he was arrested on stage for lewd behaviour. ‘My trousers split across the knees, never to the crotch,’ he said. ‘These days, Iggy Pop gets his tackle out on television and nobody pays any attention.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
FRANK CARSON (19262012). The Belfast- born comic ( right), noted for catchphrases such as ‘It’s the way I tell ’em’, was an electrician and plasterer and for three years served with the Parachute Regiment in the Middle East, where in the 1940s he was shot in the leg and survived a bomb that killed seven RAF men he was working with. MIKE NICHOlS (1931-2014). The Oscarwinning director of The Graduate was born Michael Peschkowsky in Berlin. His grandfather, who led the German Social Democrat party, was killed by the Nazis, but Michael escaped to the U.S. in 1939. He wore wigs all his life, having lost his hair at the age of four.
ON NOVEMBER 6…
IN 1917, the Battle of Passchendaele came to an end after three months of fighting. IN 1975, the Sex Pistols had their debut gig at St Martin’s Art College in london.