ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
APRIL 17, 1971
GLENDA JACKSON won the Best Actress Oscar yesterday for Women In Love. Ms Jackson heard the big news by Transatlantic phone call at 6.20am at her home in London, where she lives with her husband and their two-year-old son. APRIL 17, 1990
BRITONS drank more than a billion bottles of wine in a record-breaking 1989. More than half the population is turning to a drink associated with sophistication and moderation, says a survey report. The average wine drinker takes three glasses a week, and 52 per cent of the drinkers are women, says Euromonitor.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
BELLA FREUD, 63. The fashion designer from London is the daughter of artist Lucian and great-granddaughter of psychoanalyst Sigmund. She has dressed everyone from kate Moss to Sienna Miller, designed a knitwear range with singersongwriter Nick Cave, and made three films with John Malkovich.
NICK HORNBY, 67. The Surrey-born novelist wrote Fever Pitch and About A Boy — the film rights sold for £2 million. He said he persuaded his son to take up reading by telling him a novel was ‘ one of the most banned books in America’.
BORN ON THIS DAY
VICTOR LOWNES (1928-2017). The manager of Hugh Hefner’s Playboy empire in Europe developed the company’s nightclubs and persuaded advertisers to place their logos next to images of naked women. He declared: ‘Privately, publicly and commercially, I think sex is good.’
JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN (18371913). The u.S. investment banker, better known by his initials J.P., financed several railroads and owned u.S. Steel. On the day of his funeral, the New York Stock Exchange closed until noon in his honour.
ON APRIL 17…
IN 1964, Ford unveiled its Mustang at the World’s Fair in New York.
IN 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating Robert F. kennedy.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION Miryachit (coined 1890)
A) Compensation paid by a killer’s family. B) Sound of fireworks exploding. C) A nervous disorder.
answer below PHRASE EXPLAINED
To have ants in one’s pants: To be fidgety or restless; made popular by Hugh Johnson, a u.S. general who, in 1933, said of a colleague’s agitation that it was ‘just a symptom of the ants of conscience in his pants’.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing.
Umberto Eco, Italian writer (1932-2016)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT animal do you look like when you get into the bath? a little bear. Guess The Definition answer: C.