November 9, 2022 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE NOVEMBER 9, 1968
CynTHIA LEnnOn asked for a quick divorce from Beatle John yesterday. Her counsel, Mr Joseph Jackson, QC, said this was because 34-year- old Japanese artist yoko Ono is expecting Mr Lennon’s baby in February. Mr Justice Ormrod granted her a decree nisi — to become absolute in 28 days instead of three months.
NOVEMBER 9, 1974
THE Countess of Lucan lay sedated in hospital last night as detectives tried to trace her husband after the savage murder of her children’s nanny. Police say they want to find the 39-year-old Earl, who has not appeared at his usual haunts among the gambling clubs of Mayfair.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
DAME Marina Warner, 76. The London-born historian and novelist, who was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has been described as ‘one of Britain’s most lauded public intellectuals’. The daughter of a bookseller, she started out as a journalist for Vogue before writing almost 40 books, many analysing myths and legends. LOU FERRIgnO, 71. The U.S actor and former bodybuilder, a two-time Mr Universe by the age of 22, played the title role in 1970s TV series The Incredible Hulk (pictured). Ferrigno, who lost most of his hearing as a toddler due to ear infections, read the comic book as a child to give himself comfort after bullies made fun of his hearing aid.
BORN ON THIS DAY
DOROTHy DAnDRIDgE (1922-1965). The U.S. actress and singer was the first black woman nominated for the Best Actress Oscar (for Carmen Jones) and the first to appear on the cover of Life magazine. During World War II, she sang at the London Palladium, and while ‘ coolly’ drinking tea like the locals, she said: ‘It was in the shelters that I developed an affinity with the English.’
SIR gILES gILBERT SCOTT (1880-1960). The London- born architect designed Battersea Power Station, Liverpool Cathedral and the iconic red K2 telephone box, which featured in a 2002 set of stamps honouring British design. He was the grandson of Sir george gilbert Scott, who designed the Albert Memorial for Queen Victoria. ON NOVEMBER 9…
IN 1982, BBC sitcom
The young Ones
( pictured), starring
Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall, was first broadcast.
IN 2002, it was announced that Madonna’s film
Swept Away would not be released in the UK, after it flopped at the U.S. box office.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Wampish (c. 1816) A) To wave about or flop to and fro. B) Conceited, affected.
C) Feeble. Answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED
Go the distance: Meaning to complete a difficult task or endure an ordeal. It comes from boxing, when a boxer completes a fight without being knocked or ruled out.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it.
Alan Bennett, playwright
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHy do dogs float in water?
Because they’re good buoys.
Guess The Definition answer: A. Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD