ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
NOVEMBER 12, 1966 AN EToN education has become a positive liability for a young politician, the college’s weekly newspaper claimed yesterday. And it blamed the Press.
An editorial in the Eton College Chronicle says: ‘For some reason the fact that Eton has produced 19 Prime Ministers, which should be a matter for pride, has been made into a matter of shame and embarrassment. on radio and television and in the Press, whenever we hear the magic words ‘nepotism’ or ‘grousemoor’ we can be sure that some attack on old Etonians is to follow.’
NOVEMBER 12, 1992 THE Church of England launched itself yesterday into the greatest upheaval in its history. More than 450 years of tradition were overturned when the Church’s parliament, the General Synod, opened the doors to the ordination of women.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
VALERIE LEoN, 76. The actress from London made seven Carry on films (including Carry on Up The Jungle, pictured) and was a Bond girl with both Sean Connery and Roger Moore. The former Harrods fashion buyer also did Hai Karate aftershave TV ads. of suggestions the next Bond should be a woman, she said: ‘The world has gone mad.’ RYAN GoSLING, 39. The Canadian star of La La Land and Drive started his career as a child presenting Disney’s Mickey Mouse Club alongside Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. He has said of the job: ‘It was whatever I could do to not end up working in a factory. If I had to shake it like a showgirl, I was going to do it.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
AUGUSTE RoDIN (1840-1917). The French sculptor is best known for The Kiss and The Thinker (which inspired Bruce Forsyth’s famous pose). A version of the latter sits atop his grave in a suburb south of Paris. His first full-scale work, Age of Bronze, was so lifelike, he was accused of having cast it from a living model.
BoB HoLNESS (19282012). The South Africanborn TV presenter was one of the first actors to play James Bond, in a 1956 radio adaptation of Moonraker. He was a presenter on LBC radio before finding fame on TV quiz Blockbusters. He also hosted a BBC World Service show where he delighted in requests, ‘ranging from a recording of a cuckoo for a Surrey gentleman in Swaziland to Fats Domino for a lady in Australia’.
ON NOVEMBER 12…
IN 1867, the Conservatives held their first annual conference in a London pub — the Freemasons’ Tavern, Great Queen Street.
IN 2015, Barack obama became the first sitting U.S. President to pose for the cover of a gay magazine.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: pilgarlic (coined 18th century)
A) A bald-headed man; B) A person without energy; C) A miser Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED Go out on a limb: to make a large assumption, or risk safety or comfort to do something positive; coined in the late 1800s, possibly from climbing trees, in which the farther away from the trunk or ‘out on the limb’ someone went, the more dangerous it was.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure
Errol Flynn, Australian-born actor (1909-1959)
JOKE OF THE DAY
HoW does a squid go into battle?
Well-armed.
Guess The Definition answer: A.