November 26, 2021 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE NOVEMBER 26, 1963
AN ETERNAL flame burns brightly tonight over the grave of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy — a symbol to all the world of his unquenchable spirit. It was lit by his blackveiled widow, Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy, just as the sun was sinking behind the hill on which he was laid to rest.
NOVEMBER 26, 1990
THE first rap star to top the charts in Britain and the U.S. faces legal action. Vanilla Ice’s hit Ice Ice Baby is said to have similarities with the 1981 Queen and David Bowie song Under Pressure. Bowie is said to be furious. [the British artists were later given a songwriting credit.]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
TINA TURNER, 82. the U. S. singer-songwriter, born Anna Mae Bullock, had hits with river Deep, Mountain high and Simply the Best. She was once so ill she was preparing for assisted suicide before her German record executive husband donated one of his kidneys. lIA WIllIAMS, 57. Described as ‘one of our greatest stage actresses’, Merseysideborn Williams is best known for playing Wallis Simpson in the Crown. After being rejected by the drama schools she applied to, Williams ran away to be a showgirl in Spain. She said she enjoyed a good spell in her career after her mother’s death, which ‘made me realise I am closer to the abyss and I can throw caution to the wind’.
BORN ON THIS DAY
LORD (CHARLES) Forte (1908-2007). the Italian-born Scottish hotelier owned 800 hotels and the little Chef roadside restaurants. Forte was nicknamed ‘Mr Piccadilly’ because, people said, a brick thrown in any direction from Piccadilly Circus would go through one of his windows. FrAnCeS Dee (1909-2004). the U.S. actress is best remembered for 1943’s I Walked With A Zombie. George Cukor, the original director of Gone With the Wind, wanted Dee to play Melanie, but producer David Selznick reportedly thought she would overshadow Vivien leigh’s Scarlett (the role went to olivia de havilland).
ON NOVEMBER 26 . . .
IN 1942, Casablanca, starring humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, had its premiere in new York. Bogart’s character rick never actually says: ‘Play it again, Sam,’ he says: ‘You played it for her, you can play it for me.’ IN 1968, the race relations Act came into force, making it illegal to refuse housing, employment or public services to someone based on their ethnic background.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION: Wimble (c late 13th century)
A) A congenital blemish on the skin, such as a mole. B) An instrument for boring. C) Wool from a dead sheep. Answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED Thirty pieces of silver — refers to someone who has sold out and taken money, personal gain or high office in exchange for betraying a person or cause; it comes from the Bible as the price for which Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
Tom Lehrer, U.S. satirist
JOKE OF THE DAY
I STAYED on a merry-go-round for three days . . . I set a whirled record. Guess The Definition answer: B Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD