ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
NOVEMBER 14, 1968
BEATLE Paul McCartney appears naked, partly hidden by a pillar, on a poster for The Beatles LP, which comes out next week. Another picture shows John Lennon naked. The Apple Company said: ‘The pictures are more tasteful than those on some albums that have gone out.’ NOVEMBER 14, 2015
JIHADI JOHN died ‘too easily’ in a drone strike, his victims’ families said last night. They suggested the Islamic State executioner had escaped suffering, unlike the hostages he terrorised then beheaded. The Pentagon said the Kuwaiti-born Briton, real name Mohammed Emwazi, was ‘evaporated’ by a U.S. Hellfire missile.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
CHARLES III, 75. The oldest person to ascend the British throne was the first heir to see his mother crowned and the first to obtain a university degree. In 2018, Clarence House revealed he has a breakfast of fruit and seeds, does not eat lunch and his favourite tea is Darjeeling with honey and milk. But perhaps he’ll splash out a little more today... CONDOLEEZZA RICE, 69. The first black woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State, 2005-2009. She grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, which she called ‘the most segregated big city in America’, but said her parents made her believe that even though she ‘can’t have a hamburger at the Woolworth’s lunch counter’, she could be President of the United States.
BORN ON THIS DAY
JOSEPH MCCARTHY (1908-1957). The U.S. senator exploited fears of ‘Reds under the bed’ with a witch-hunt for Communists in public life, which led to the word ‘McCarthyism’ entering the dictionary. He was censured by the Senate in 1954 and died three years later aged 48 from cirrhosis of the liver due to heavy drinking. BRIAN KEITH (1921-1997). The actor played Hayley Mills’ father in The Parent Trap and President Theodore Roosevelt in The Wind And The Lion. He said: ‘I never made a career move in my life. I just took what came along.’ He joked of Charlie Chan And The Curse of the Dragon Queen: ‘I only did the picture because it had a long title, and I seem to specialise in those.’
ON NOVEMBER 14 . . .
IN 1941, Suspicion, an Alfred Hitchcock romantic thriller starring Cary Grant (pictured) was released. IN 1967, U. S. engineer Theodore Maiman was granted a patent for his invention of the first laser.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Featous (coined mid-14th century)
A) Having projected teeth. B) Of a man: handsome. C) Foppish, conceited.
answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Playing to the gallery: From the mid 17th century, the highest (and cheapest) seating in a theatre was called the gallery, where the least refined members of the audience were to be found. Hence to ‘play to the gallery’ is to appeal to popular taste.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. Le Guin, U.S. author (1929-2018)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHERE do sloths get their news? Snoozepapers.
Guess The Definition answer: B.