ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
FEBRUARY 10, 1917 THE Food Controller is pleased with the response to his regulations. Women all over the country, in villages and in towns, in hospitals, hostels and private houses, are entering into the spirit of eating less meat. One class of offender is still found at the club and restaurant. More than 6oz of meat at a meal is unpatriotic. Steak-eaters and the second-portion patron must be discouraged. FEBRUARY 10, 1967 PRINCE PHILIP’S ‘sick and tired of making excuses’ speech yesterday caused controversy among business leaders. He told exporters in London that wherever he went abroad, he was asked about late deliveries, poor after-sales service, strikes and Britain’s financial position. But the Confederation of British Industry said: ‘It is hard to see how Prince Philip is in a position to know what he’s talking about.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
PHILIP GLENISTER, 54, the actor best known as DCI Gene Hunt (right) in BBC series Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes. His brother is Hustle star Robert Glenister and his former sister-in-law is Amanda Redman, but he doesn’t want his two children following their trade: ‘I look at my elder child and think, if you want to earn some money, become a barrister: you still wear a wig and get dressed up, but you earn.’ PETER PuRvES, 78. The actor and Crufts host was in 44 episodes of Doctor Who before becoming a Blue Peter presenter. Co-presenter valerie Singleton admitted they’d had a one-night stand. Purves said: ‘I can’t have been that great or she would have wanted to do it again...’
BORN ON THIS DAY
BORIS PASTERNAK (18901960). The Russian author of Doctor Zhivago (made into the 1965, Oscar-winning film starring Julie Christie and Omar Sharif, pictured) won the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature but was forced to decline it by Soviet officials. Three other Nobel laureates also made to turn down the prize were Germans in the Nazi regime. STELLA ADLER (1901-1992). The American actress made her stage debut at the age of four, but made her name pioneering a type of ‘method acting’ and becoming America’s ‘most important teacher of acting’. Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Warren Beatty were among her students.
ON FEBRUARY 10...
IN 1942, Glenn Miller won the first ‘gold disc’ for Chattanooga Choo Choo. IN 1964, Bob Dylan released his album The Times They Are A-Changin’. IN 2005, the Queen said she was ‘very happy’ that Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles had got engaged, 35 years after meeting.
WORD WIZARDRY
NEW WORD OF THE DAY Freegan: A person who rejects consummerism and seeks to help the environment, eating only what they can get for nothing. GUESS THE DEFINITION Doddypoll (coined 1401) A) A scarecrow made of old garments. B) The impression of a horse’s hoof upon soft ground. C) A hornless cow, hence a fool. (Answer below). PHRASE EXPLAINED Left in the lurch: From the game of cribbage, in which a lurch is the situation where a player has scored only 30 holes, having not yet turned the corner or pegged his 31st hole.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
ThE one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY is it cheap to feed a giraffe? A little goes a long way. Guess The Definition answer: C.