January 5, 2022 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JANUARY 5, 1965
T.S.ELIOT, the American-born poet and dramatist, who in 1927 adopted British nationality, died at his London home last night. He was 76. Eliot, a Nobel Prize winner, was a revolutionary writer who valued tradition above all things, an internationalist who disliked cosmopolitanism and a literary creator who abhorred contrived originality.
JANUARY 5, 1972
WITH a trace of deep crimson lipstick, and only an occasional pat at her wig, the first woman judge took her seat in the Old Bailey yesterday. The lists in the hall said that cases in Court No. 7 would be heard by ‘Miss Recorder [Rose] Heilbron, QC’. And so, without palaver, but with much courtesy and humanity, they were.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
MANDIP GILL, 34. The actress (right) from Leeds starred in Hollyoaks and doctors before making her name as Yasmin Khan, the companion to Jodie Whittaker in doctor Who. Following complaints from Americans that they couldn’t understand the duo’s Northern accents, Gill said: ‘You’ve got Scary Spice in the States, and she’s way more Northern than we are.’ TOM HOLLAND, 54. The historian from Oxfordshire is known for his bestsellers on the Roman Empire. Holland once said: ‘I have always felt that the past contains more glamour, colour and excitement than the present. I was neurotically, obsessively, into dinosaurs as a five-year-old.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
KONRAD ADENAUER (1876-1967). The first Chancellor of West Germany played a central role in rebuilding the country after World War II. He co-founded the Christian democratic union, the political party that would be led by Angela Merkel for 18 years, and negotiated a restitution agreement with Israel to pay compensation for the crimes perpetrated against Jews by the Nazis. LUCIENNE DAY (1917-2010). Born désirée Lucienne Lisbeth dulcie Conradi in Surrey, ‘the foremost British textile designer of the mid-20th century’ shot to fame when her Calyx fabric was exhibited at the 1951 Festival of Britain. day said: ‘I wanted the work I was doing to be...used by people. They had been starved of interesting things for their homes in the war years.’
ON JANUARY 5 …
IN 1933, construction began on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. IN 1998, Sonny Bono (right), u.S. politician and one-time singing partner and husband of Cher, died, aged 62, in a skiing accident.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Cartouche (c. 1610) A) Rounded, convex surface surrounded with carved ornamental scrollwork. B) Old man given to anecdotes. C) diagonally across from something. answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Steal my thunder: Meaning to prevent someone from achieving success by taking their idea. Said to date from the 1700s when playwright John dennis invented a way to replicate the sound of thunder on stage, only for a theatrical rival to ‘borrow’ the technique for his own production.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
I WANT to reach the state of condensation of sensations which constitutes a picture. Henri Matisse, French artist (1869-1954)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY did the statue of david leave the museum? He was tired of being taken for granite. guess the Definition answer: a.