May 10, 2022 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE May 10, 1950
A MEATIER sausage would cost more. This would send up the cost of living index, and perhaps wages as well. So the Cabinet now has to consider the Food Minister’s plan for the ‘better banger’. But more cooked meats will be on sale off ration from Monday.
May 10, 1986
SHERPA Tenzing Norgay, the porter who conquered Mount Everest in Coronation Year, was mourned yesterday by the Indian nation and mountaineers everywhere. Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi praised ‘the tiger of the snows’, and the men who had climbed with Tenzing paid tribute to his courage, modesty and sense of humour.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
BONO, 62. The Irish singer-songwriter, and frontman of U2, was born Paul David Hewson. He got his nickname from a Dublin hearing aid shop called Bonavox. Asked why he always wears sunglasses, he said: ‘If somebody takes my photograph, I will see the flash for the rest of the day. My right eye swells up. So it’s part vanity, it’s part privacy and part sensitivity.’ SALLY PHILLIPS, 52. The Hong Kong-born British actress starred in the Bridget Jones films, sketch show Smack The Pony and sitcoms I’m Alan Partridge and Miranda. She said she got a shock after leaving Oxford University ‘having discovered feminism and then going into comedy, where it was just assumed that women weren’t funny’. Her father used to be the chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club.
BORN ON THIS DAY
ARTHUR ALExANDER (1940-1993). The ‘forgotten’ U.S. singer is thought to be the only songwriter whose music was covered in studio albums by The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. But he never made his fortune, becoming a bus driver in the 1980s, and dying of heart failure at 53. ETTORE SCOLA (1931-2016). The Italian film director and screenwriter, a five-time Oscar nominee who won the best director award at Cannes, made the Golden Globewinning Una Giornata Particolare (A Special Day), starring Sophia Loren, and Macaroni with Jack Lemmon.
ON MAY 10…
IN 1941, the Queen’s Hall, London’s premier concert hall and the home of the BBC Symphony and the London Philharmonic Orchestras, was destroyed by a bomb. IN 1976, Abba were enjoying their third UK No 1 with Fernando.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: node (circa1420s) A) A knot or protuberance. B) A dispute. C) A musical note lasting for half a beat.
answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED The butterfly effect: refers to the phenomenon in which a small local change in a greater system can cause large effects elsewhere; it comes from the creation of the Chaos Theory based on this idea.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist (1856-1950)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY is a piano so hard to open? Because the keys are on the inside. Guess The Definition answer: a.