ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE NOVEMBER 30, 1943
WoMEN will soon be getting better grade corsets. The Board of Trade said last night it hopes extra supplies of hard spring steel will soon be available to improve the quality of utility garments. Complaints have been made that the health of women war-workers, standing at factory benches and in queues, is suffering due to a lack of support afforded by utility corsets. Millions of women call them ‘worthless’.
NOVEMBER 30, 1961
ENoS, the five-year-old U.S. space-chimp, was picked up safely in the Atlantic today after his space capsule ran into trouble during an orbit of Earth. The U.S. destroyer Stormes plucked Enos (right) from the sea 220 miles off Bermuda. Doctors aboard the ship opened the capsule and removed the 37lb chimpanzee. They said: ‘He looks normal to us.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
LoRRAINE KELLy, 59. The Glasbow-born presenter celebrated 30 years on morning TV last month. Kelly, who as a child dreamed of being a fighter pilot, was described by fellow ITV breakfast host Piers Morgan as ‘an iron fist in a fluffy glove’. She only learned her grandmother wanted her teenage parents to have her adopted while writing her autobiography. GARy LINEKER, 58. The footballer-turnedMatch of The Day host is the BBC’s highest-paid star, earning up to £1.76million a year. Lineker, who remains England’s top scorer at World Cup finals with ten goals, said working on his dad’s Leicester market stall improved his game: ‘It showed me what it would be like doing a proper job.’ His last school report read: ‘Must devote less time to sport if he wants to be a success.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
JoNATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745). The Anglo-Irish writer, who was also dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin, is most famous for Gulliver’s Travels and has been described as the greatest satirist in the English language. In his time, he was considered an eccentric for being fanatical about cleanliness and keeping fit.
SIR WINSToN Churchill (1874-1965). The wartime Prime Minister once said the essentials of life were: ‘Hot baths, cold champagne, new peas and old brandy.’ He’s estimated to have drunk two bottles of champagne a day. His favourite was Pol Roger, and when he died the champagne house put a black border around labels in tribute.
ON NOVEMBER 30…
IN 1982, The film Gandhi, starring Ben Kingsley, had its premiere in New Delhi. IN 1995, Bill Clinton became the first serving U.S. president to visit Northern Ireland.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Zebra (2018) A) Japanese cooking method. B) A company that aims to improve society. C) A worn area of grass. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
White lie: A harmless lie to avoid hurting someone’s feelings. Possibly coined by Shakespeare, it is based on an old idea that linked white to good and black to evil.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
THE ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. writer (1803-1882)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHy is it hard to buy advent calendars? Because their days are numbered. Guess The Definition answer: B.