November 16, 2022 ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE NOVEMBER 16, 1949
BRITAIN’S oldest miner, 81- year- old William Henry Stevenson, of Wednesbury, Staffordshire, has been sacked. The National Coal Board had to do it because ‘Old Bill’ refused to stop working. Doctors had warned him his heart might let him down.
NOVEMBER 16, 1987
SCOTlAND Yard chiefs are to review security surrounding the Royal Family amid growing concern about the ‘persecution’ of the Princess of Wales. Buckingham Palace is increasingly alarmed at the activities of photographers with motorbikes and twoway radios who are accused of making the Princess’s life a misery.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
FRANk BRUNO, 61. The london-born boxer won the WBC heavyweight title in 1995, losing it to Mike Tyson six months later. He still has a strict exercise regime, getting up at 5am every day: ‘It keeps me out of trouble, having something to focus on,’ he says. His mum once told him he tried to smash his way out of his cot as a baby. PETE DAVIDSON, 29. The U.S. comedian and actor made his name in sketch series Saturday Night live before starring in the films The Suicide Squad and The king Of Staten Island. Dubbed ‘the perfect celebrity rebound boyfriend’, he has dated Bridgerton star Phoebe Dynevor, pop star Ariana Grande, actress kate Beckinsale and socialite kim kardashian.
BORN ON THIS DAY
ClU GUlAGER (1928-2022). The actor from Oklahoma played the only character Ronald Reagan killed in his film career, in 1964’s The killers. Gulager also starred in Western series The Virginian, which was shown on BBC1 in the 1960s and 1970s. Born William, his nickname came from martins nesting at the family home when he was born (he was part-Cherokee and their word for the birds is clu-clu). EllEN AlBERTINI DOW (1913-2015). The U.S. actress studied mime in Paris with Marcel Marceau but only stepped into the limelight in her 70s after retiring as a drama teacher. Dow played a nun in two Sister Act films and performed Rapper’s Delight in 1998’s The Wedding Singer. Years after the movie, she said: ‘I still sing it all the time.’
ON NOVEMBER 16 . . .
IN 1966, Cathy Come Home, directed by ken loach, was shown on BBC1. It exposed Britain’s severe housing shortage and was voted best drama in a British Film Institute poll in 2000.
IN 2008, On The Buses star Reg Varney — who played Stan Butler in the TV series — died, aged 92.
WORD WIZARDRY GUESS THE DEFINITION Pocillovy (coined 1984)
The hobby of collecting:
A) Postcards. B) Teddy bears.
C) Eggcups. ( answer below) PHRASE EXPLAINED
Give someone the elbow: Meaning to reject or dismiss someone; it alludes to the image of nudging someone aside in a rough or contemptuous manner.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
all pro athletes are bilingual.
They speak English and profanity. Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (1928-2016)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY did the chewing gum cross the road? Because it was stuck to the chicken’s foot. Guess The Definition answer: C Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD