ON THIS DAY
June 7, 2018
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
JUNE 7, 1947 SEX equality has reared its head at Cambridge. Women are to be admitted to the University on the same terms as men, allowed all its degrees and given a hand in its government. It means women will secure by right privileges they have had for nearly 30 years. A member of the women-only Newnham College said: ‘It took only one World War to bring this about at Oxford.’
JUNE 7, 1951 TELEVISION camera lenses that give tremendously enlarged pictures on the screen are to be used for the first time at Royal Ascot. The new lens is called the ‘Zoom’. It enables a Tv camera to watch a scene, then, swooping on the central feature of the picture, enlarge it up to full-screen size.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
BEAR GRYLLS, 44, right. The Northern Ireland-born Tv survival expert, youngest-ever Chief Scout and ex-SAS reservist splits his time with his wife and three sons between a Thames houseboat, a swish flat at Battersea Power Station, a Wiltshire estate and a private island in North Wales. Reportedly worth £6 million, he once said he had only one suit — made of bright pink denim — which he wears ‘whenever I have to look smart’. MIKE PENCE, 59. The U.S. vice-President has been described as ‘The Most Powerful Christian Supremacist in U.S. History’ and says: ‘I’m a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.’ He found God at a Christian music festival in 1978. He calls his wife of 33 years ‘Mother’ and won’t eat alone with any other woman.
BORN ON THIS DAY
JESSICA TANDY (19091994), right. The Hackneyborn Hollywood actress played Ophelia to John Gielgud’s legendary Hamlet in 1934 and starred in 1947’s original production of A Streetcar Named Desire opposite Marlon Brando, whom she labelled ‘an impossible, psychopathic b ***** d’. Aged nearly 81, she became the oldest winner of a Best Actress Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy. BEAU BRUMMELL (1778-1840). The English dandy was credited with popularising trousers for English gentlemen instead of just-below-the-knee breeches. Byron said: ‘There are three great men of our age: myself, Napoleon and Brummell. But of we three, the greatest of all is Brummell.’
ON JUNE 7…
IN 1946, BBC Tv returned after being off air for seven years during the war.
IN 2000, Prime Minister Tony Blair was slow-handclapped and heckled at the Women’s Institute national conference.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Blencher (coined in Tudor-Stuart times) A) A lean deer not fit to hunt. B) A washerwoman. C) A person who stops deer going in a particular direction during a hunt. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Treasure trove: From the Anglo-French tresor trové, it described buried treasure discovered without ownership and handed over to the Crown. The law was only abolished in 1996.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
A MAN of genius makes no mistakes. His errors ... are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce, Irish novelist (1882-1941)
JOKE OF THE DAY
I BROKE my finger today. But on the other hand, I’m completely fine. Guess The Definition answer: C.