ON THIS DAY
November 10, 2022
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
NOVEMBER 10, 1908
ACCORDING to artist John Hassall, the woman of the future will be a veritable daughter of Anak. ‘By 2008 electricity will have solved the problem of domestic work,’ he said. Women will conduct their chores by pressing a series of buttons. Consequently they will give ‘all their time to the cultivation of physique. A magnificent race of women... of 6ft 6ins will be not at all exceptional in 100 years’ time.’
NOVEMBER 10, 1997
THE British comedy film Bean has become a surprise hit in America, taking an estimated $13 million — more than
£8 million — over three days since it opened. The movie based on a TV series, starring Rowan Atkinson (pictured), was standing second in the U.S. cinema top ten last night.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
MIKE POWELL, 59. The former U.S. longjumper made his name at the 1991 World Championships in Tokyo when he jumped 8.95m, creating a world record that still stands. He said: ‘For every time somebody called me a peanut head or any girl who turned me down for a date or anybody who had ever doubted me, that jump was for them, just saying “Take that”.’ EDDIE IRVINE, 57. The former racing driver from Northern Ireland first hit the headlines at the 1993 Japanese grand Prix when he overtook Ayrton Senna and was later punched by him. Upon Irvine’s retirement in 2003, he was described as ‘the last link to the heyday of Formula One, when drivers lived fast, died young and spent their free time frolicking with a posse of pit-lane babes in a bath full of Bollinger’.
BORN ON THIS DAY
MARILYN BERGMAN ( 1928- 2022). Alongside husband Alan, the American songwriter wrote for Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles and Barbra Streisand. The couple were nominated for 16 Oscars and won two for best original song (The Windmills Of your Mind and The Way We Were) and a third for the score of the 1983 film yentl.
ANN REINKING (19492020). The U.S. actress shot to fame in 1977 playing Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago on Broadway, and she won a Tony award for her choreography of its revival 19 years later. She was not just a muse for the musical’s co-creator Bob Fosse, but also his lover.
ON NOVEMBER 10 . . .
IN 1982, Leonid Brezhnev died, aged 75, while serving as general Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
IN 1983, Bill gates unveiled the first version of Microsoft Windows.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Herf (c 1982)
A) Domestic help.
B) Exhausted partygoers.
C) A gathering where people enjoy handrolled cigars. answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Feast of reason: meaning intellectual talk; it was coined by the poet Alexander Pope in his description of conversation in Imitations Of Horace: ‘The feast of reason and the flow of soul’.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. Joan Didion, U.S. writer (1934-2021)
JOKE OF THE DAY
HOW did the barber win the race? He took a shortcut.
Guess The Definition answer: C