ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE NOVEMBER 3, 1930
HAILE SELASSIE the First — whose name translates to Power of the Trinity in English — was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in the Cathedral of St George, Addis Ababa, yesterday. The 13-hour ceremony included a solitary vigil of His Majesty at prayer from 10 o’clock last night until 7am today.
NOVEMBER 3, 1960
THE uncensored affairs of Lady Chatterley and her husband’s gamekeeper — argued about for 32 years but never published here — are due to go on sale throughout britain. Distribution started yesterday, a few minutes after an Old bailey jury decided that D. H. Lawrence’s novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, was not obscene.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
DAME ANNA WINTOUR, 72. The british journalist has been editor-in-chief of U.S. Vogue since 1988. She is believed to have been the inspiration for Meryl Streep’s Miranda in The Devil Wears Prada, which was based on a book by Wintour’s former personal assistant, Lauren Weisberger. She said she sticks with her trademark bob hairstyle because ‘the one time I tried to change it, it was a disaster. I had to wear a hat for several months’.
KENDALL JENNER, 26. The U.S. socialite was, along with sister Kylie and half-sisters Kim, Khloe and Kourtney, a star of Keeping Up With The Kardashians. She is among the most popular people on Instagram, with 197million followers. Jenner painted her home pink because she says it is ‘the only colour scientifically proven to calm you and suppress your appetite!’
BORN ON THIS DAY
JOHN BARRY (1933-2011). The York-born composer won five Oscars and wrote the music for 11 bond films — compositions he described as ‘million dollar Mickey Mouse music’. barry, whose father owned a chain of eight cinemas, did his national service as an Army bandsman. He was married four times, including to 19-year-old actress Jane birkin for three years from 1965.
VIOLETTA ELVIN (19232021). The Russian-born prima ballerina, described as ‘the only rival ever to give Dame Margot Fonteyn a run for her money’, joined the Sadler’s Wells ballet (now the Royal ballet) in 1945. born Violetta Prokhorova, she had to quit the bolshoi when Soviet authorities noticed she was seeing Harold Elvin from the british embassy. Clement
Attlee intervened to persuade Stalin to allow her to leave the Soviet Union, with Elvin becoming the first of her three husbands.
ON NOVEMBER 3…
IN 1990, the Righteous brothers went to No.1 with Unchained Melody. IN 2014, New York’s One World Trade Center reopened, 13 years after the twin towers were destroyed in the 9/11 attacks.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Pellucid (c 1610s) A) Skinny. b) A hard upper shell. C) transparent, clear. Answer below PHRASE EXPLAINED To meet one’s Waterloo — meaning to suffer a major setback and referring to Napoleon’s total defeat at Waterloo in 1815.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
It Is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist (1927-2014)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY should you never tell a joke while standing on ice? Because it might crack up.
Guess the Definition answer: C.