ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE MAY 6, 1966
THE Budget was not just bad, it was antiwomen — and ‘absolute lunacy’, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, Tory economics spokesman, told the Commons last night. Only a man [in this case, James Callaghan], ill-versed in the gentle art of housekeeping, would fail to see how prices were going to rise, she said. MAY 6, 1967 A FOuR-YEAR investigation by the British tobacco industry confirms there is a close connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. It may force the Government to act against advertising and other promotional spending, and is certain to stir up new pressures against smoking in public places.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
GEORGE CLOOnEY, 58. The u.S. actor and director once (right) had a £50,000 bet with actress Michelle Pfeiffer that he would never marry. He now lives in Theresa May’s Maidenhead constituency with barrister wife, Amal, and their twins, Ella and Alexander. He had a pot-bellied pet pig, Max, for 18 years and described it as his ‘longest relationship to date’. TOnY BLAIR, 66. Labour’s longest serving PM was so superstitious about Prime Minister’s Questions that he wore the same pair of hand-made brogues to the weekly political duel for a decade. They cost £150, with Blair saying: ‘Cheap shoes are a false economy.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
ORSOn WELLES (19151985). The u. S. actor, writer and director, best known for the film Citizen Kane, gained his first acting experience aged ten — being paid to dress up as Peter Rabbit in a department store window. In later life, he made a fortune doing film trailer voiceovers and adverts for Shredded Wheat and Perrier water. His three wives included film star Rita Hayworth (pictured together, above). A renowned gourmet and wit, he once said: ‘Ask not what you can do for your country . . . ask what’s for lunch.’ SIGMund FREud ( 1856- 1939). The Austrian founding father of psychoanalysis was a keen collector of historic objects and his housekeeper said he would often stroke a marble baboon while thinking. He started positioning his own chair behind his famous couch after a female patient — facing him at the time — made an attempt to seduce him.
ON MAY 6…
IN 1960, Princess Margaret married photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey. IN 1966, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were jailed for life for the Moors murders. IN 2001, John Paul II became the first pope to enter a mosque, during a trip to Syria.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Reshoring (2014) A) To fill oneself up with food B) Transferring jobs done in other countries back to the country where the firm is based C) Giving comfort ( Answer below)
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Turn up for the book: An unexpected outcome; from horse racing where the book is the record of bets laid on a race; when a horse performed in an unexpected way, most bets were lost and so the book and bookmaker benefited.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
I VIEWED my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape. Desmond Morris, English anthropologist
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT do you call a zombie father? The walking dad. Guess The Definition answer: B