ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
FEBRUARY 10, 1942
EXTRA soap rations for coal miners, munitions workers, engineers and all war workers in jobs that require a lot of washing are expected to be announced by the Ministry of Food today. However, this has given the railways a problem. Hundreds of tablets vanished from long-distance trains all over Britain yesterday as a result.
FEBRUARY 10, 1983
A MASSIVE hunt was under way throughout Ireland last night for kidnapped wonder horse Shergar. The Aga Khan, multi-millionaire head of the syndicate which owns the £10 million horse — winner of the Derby and the Irish Derby — will be a key figure in deciding whether the ransom demand of £2 million will be paid.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
HOLLY WILLOUGHBY, 39. The Brighton-born Dancing On Ice presenter, who has been described as ‘ the nation’s sweetheart’, was spotted in the crowd at The Clothes Show Live and signed up to a modelling agency aged 16. Co-host of Itv’s This Morning with Phillip Schofield, she said: ‘My friends were amazed that I became a Tv presenter. I was not a big talker at school.’ ROBERT WAGNER, 90. The American actor is best known for Tv series Hart To Hart and the Austin Powers films. He still skis and rides horses and sees his personal trainer three times a week. In 2018, LA police said they wanted to re-interview Wagner over the 1981 drowning of his wife, West Side Story actress Natalie Wood.
BORN ON THIS DAY
HAROLD MACMILLAN ( 1894- 1986). The Eton-educated Tory Prime Minister between 1957 and 1963 served in both world wars. After being wounded at the Somme, he lay down in a trench reading Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound in the original Greek while medicating himself with morphine. Nicknamed ‘ Supermac’, he famously claimed in 1957 that the British people had ‘never had it so good’. He resigned following the Profumo scandal. STELLA ADLER (1901-1992). The American actress, who appeared in nearly 200 plays, was a pioneer of a type of ‘method acting’ and was described as ‘arguably the most important teacher of acting in American history’. Adler counted Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Warren Beatty among her students.
ON FEBRUARY 10 . . .
IN 1971, American singersongwriter Carole King (pictured) released Tapestry, one of the best- selling albums of all time.
IN 2014, former Hollywood child star Shirley Temple died, aged 85.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Fritinancy (c 1646)
A) Excitement from a first success. B) Sounds of insects. C) Common sense. Answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Milk of human kindness: Meaning compassion; from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, in which Lady Macbeth tells her husband: ‘Yet do I fear thy nature, It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness.’
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.
Sir Peter Ustinov, English actor (1921-2004)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT do you call an Italian with a rubber toe? Roberto. Guess The Definition answer: B.