ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
NOVEMBER 7, 1941 WINTeR economies mean that fires will not be lit in railway station waiting rooms or offices unless absolutely necessary. If premises are centrally heated, the maximum temperature will be 60f [15.5c]. NOVEMBER 7, 1966 THe first girl from a Communist country to enter the Miss World contest has arrived in London. Miss Yugoslavia’s claim to the title seems to be formidable. The main one: her blonde looks. Also, Nikica Marinovic (right) is from Dalmatia, where the girls are said to be the most beautiful in all Yugoslavia. The 19-year-old has been having crash courses in deportment and english to impress the West. [She was eventually placed second.]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
LORDe, 21. The singer-songwriter from New Zealand (born ella Yelich-O’Connor) chose her stage name because she is ‘obsessed with aristocracy’. She got her first record contract at 13 and went to No 1 on three continents aged 16 with her debut single, Royals. David Bowie said hearing her music was ‘like listening to tomorrow’. MORGAN SPURLOCK, 47. The U.S. filmmaker and political activist is best known for his Oscar-nominated 2004 documentary film Super Size Me, for which he ate three McDonald’s meals a day for 30 days. By the end, he’d gained 25lb and suffered liver dysfunction and depression. It took him 14 months on a detox diet to lose the weight.
BORN ON THIS DAY
ALBeRT CAMUS (1913-60). The Algerianborn French novelist and Nobel laureate. Dubbed the ‘master of the absurd’, the author of L’Étranger (The Outsider) and La Peste (The Plague) was a keen amateur sportsman who once said: ‘All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.’ A chain smoker, he named his cat Cigarette. HeRMAN MANKIeWICZ (1897-1953). The Oscar-winning U.S. screenwriter is best known for writing or co-writing the screenplays for hits such as Citizen Kane and It’s A Wonderful World. He was the first of several hired to pen The Wizard Of Oz and came up with the idea of starting the film in black and white before it burst into colour, but never received a credit for his work.
ON NOVEMBER 7…
IN 1911, Marie Curie became the first person to win a second Nobel prize, for chemistry. Her first was for physics. IN 1917, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and the Bolsheviks seized power in Petrograd, Russia. IN 1951, Frank Sinatra married his second wife, Ava Gardner (right). WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION Abacinate (coined 1866) A: To stretch, accompanied by yawning. B: To blind by putting a hot copper basin near someone’s eyes. C: To suffocate in mud. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Every cloud has a silver lining: Meaning every bad situation has a good aspect. From Milton’s Comus of 1634, where the lady in the wood resolves not to abandon hope, saying: ‘Was I deceived or did a sable cloud turn forth her silver lining on the night?’