ON THIS DAY
September 28, 2017
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
SEPTEMBER 28, 1948 A RESOLUTION calling for the end of clothes rationing was unanimously passed by the conference of the national Chamber of Trade, at Bridlington, Yorkshire, yesterday. Mr R. Bradshaw, of Bury, said: ‘The public is utterly weary of being ordered and regimented by a soulless bureaucracy.’
SEPTEMBER 28, 1957
TELEVISION ‘fever’ is causing more children to squint. In the past year, cases in Lincolnshire have jumped 44 per cent, says Dr C. D. Cormac, the county medical officer. But the doctor does not want to stop boys and girls from viewing. His advice? To limit the time they watch to guard against strain.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
HELEN SHAPIRO, 71, right. The English singer, who became a star at 14, is best known for her 1961 hits Walkin’ Back To Happiness and You Don’t Know. In 1963, the Beatles were her support act. She found God in 1987, shunning showbusiness for gospel events. MIKA HAKKINEN, 49. The Finnish twotime former F1 champion is still rated as one of the best Grand Prix drivers of all time. He retired in 2008 — the year a fire sparked by an electrical fault destroyed many of his trophies at his home in Provence.
BORN ON THIS DAY
ETHEL ROSENBERG (1915-1953). With her husband Julius, new York-born Ethel was convicted of conspiracy to give u.S. military secrets to the Russians and executed. Her younger brother, who worked on the government’s atomic bomb programme, claimed he was recruited to pass on secrets and received a reduced sentence after testifying against his sister. SYLVIA KRISTEL (19522012). The Dutch actress (right) played the promiscuous housewife in 1974’s Emmanuelle, four sequels and seven Tv films. The first film played in a Paris cinema for 11 years, but was not shown in full in the UK until 2007. Kristel stopped appearing nude on film in the Eighties after her son was teased at school.
ON SEPTEMBER 28…
IN 1924, two u.S. army planes landed in Seattle, completing the first round-theworld flight in 175 days. IN 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered a mould that he named penicillin.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION Warp (coined in Tudor-Stuart era) A) A pathway up to a steep hill. B) A dash or flourish at the end of a written word. C) Bees in flight working themselves forward. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Red rag to a bull: A deliberate provocation to cause an adverse reaction. It comes from the 17th century, when a red rag was slang for the tongue, and waving a red rag merely meant having a chat. The bull part was added later, when it was thought waving red rags would distract or enrage animals — but bulls are colour-blind.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
CRICKET — a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity. Lord Mancroft, Conservative politician (1914-1987)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT can you do with a sick chemist? if you can’t helium, or curium, you can always barium. Guess the Definition answer: C.