ON THIS DAY
November 6, 2023
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
NOVEMBER 6, 1943
FOR the first time the price of beetroots and turnips are to be controlled. Until December 12 the retail price of the vegetables will be 3d per lb.
NOVEMBER 6, 1993
WALT DISNEY executives may change the name of their troubled Euro Disney park. They think the prefix Euro spells nothing but trouble, citing the problems of Eurotunnel, among others.
‘It isn’t easy to think of anything with Euro in the title that has been a great success,’ said one. The park, near Paris, has built up debts of £2.5 billion since it opened in 1992. [ It was renamed Disneyland Paris two years later.]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
SALLY FIELD, 77. Having been told by her agent that she ‘wasn’t pretty enough’ to work in movies, the U.S. star fired him and went on to win best actress Oscars for Norma Rae (1979) and Places In The Heart (1984). That was despite her then actor boyfriend Burt Reynolds trying to prevent her taking the former role, saying: ‘No lady of mine is gonna play a whore’.
CATH KIDSTON, 65. The London-born designer was probably wise to sell a majority stake in her firm in 2010. It was reportedly valued at £100 million at the time. Next bought the brand name for £8.5 m in March, after the retailer had fallen into administration twice in two years, and all stores were closed.
BORN ON THIS DAY
JOHN PHILIP SOUSA (1854-1932). The leader of the U.S. Marine Band wrote three novels, ten operas and 137 marches, including Stars And Stripes Forever, the national march of the United States. Dubbed the ‘March King’ he once said: ‘I would rather be the composer of an inspired march than of a manufactured symphony.’
GLENN FREY ( 19482016). After founding the Eagles, who had hits with Take It Easy and Hotel California, the hedonistic U.S. musician said: ‘Led Zeppelin might argue with us, but I think we had the greatest travelling party of the 1970s. The wine was the best, the drugs were good and the women were beautiful.’
ON NOVEMBER 6 . . .
IN 1893, Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky died, aged 53.
IN 1977, Abba were at UK No. 1, with The Name Of The Game.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Krobylos (c850)
A) A big toe.
B) The fleshy mass on the palm of the hand at the base of the thumb.
C) A tuft of hair on top of one’s head.
answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Made of sterner stuff: To be very strong and determined; it comes from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar of 1599 in which Mark Antony says: ‘When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; ambition should be made of sterner stuff.’
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it does not mean I am an eel-and-pie yob.
Sir Michael Caine, English actor
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT do you call a sleepwalking nun? a roamin’ Catholic.
Guess The Definition answer: C.