ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
MARCH 2, 1946 A MAN who tonight infiltrated a Derby Housewive’s League meeting, attended by 300 women, was dragged out and pushed into the street. Angry women took action when Mr W. Pritchard accused them of asking for luxury food when others in the world were starving. MARCH 2, 1965 PARIS has decreed it. Knees will be seen again this year. But what makes them beautiful? Valerie Gilbert, who works for a women’s magazine, says: ‘The perfect knee has a little “waist” below it and another above.’ She gave Julie Christie’s ‘muscly’ knees four marks out of ten. Dusty Springfield’s three, Cilla Black, seven.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
ANDREW STRAUSS, 41. The South African-born director of English Cricket and ex-England captain, said his leadership style was inspired by Winston Churchill’s World War II diaries. Strauss, who led England to two Ashes victories, always wore his wedding ring on a shoelace tied around his neck, ‘to remind me of why I play cricket: for my family’. ALExANDER ARMSTRONG, 48. The comedian and actor is also a singer who has released three albums. He replaced David Jason as the voice of animated cartoon Danger Mouse in 2014. Armstrong hosts BBC quiz show Pointless and says the daftest answer he had was in the category ‘seven wonders of the world’. The contestant, who had to fill in the blank in ‘The Hanging ....... Of Babylon’, answered ‘baskets’.
BORN ON THIS DAY
DEREK WATKINS ( 1945- 2013). The trumpeter from Reading played on every James Bond soundtrack from Dr No in 1962, aged 17, to Skyfall, released a year before his death from cancer. Nicknamed ‘Mr Lead’ by legendary jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, Watkins also played lead trumpet on the Chicago and Mission: Impossible film soundtracks and on The Beatles’ Strawberry Fields Forever. THEODOR SEUSS GEISEL (1904-1991). The American writer and illustrator behind The Cat In The Hat and Green Eggs And Ham is the world’s best- selling children’s author, having sold more than 650 million copies worldwide. He adopted the name Dr Seuss because his father had always wanted a doctor in the family.
ON MARCH 2 …
IN 1797, the Bank of England issued the first £1 and £2 bank notes. IN 1970, Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith declared the country a republic.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Ranarium (coined 1889)
A) One-way peephole in a door. B) Place where frogs are kept. C) A pantry. Answer below. PHRASE EXPLAINED
To gild the lily: Meaning to try to improve on perfection. Comes from the lily, a regal symbol with no need of adornment.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
I’m tired of love; I’m still more tired of rhyme. But money gives me pleasure all the time. Hilaire Belloc, Anglo-French writer (1870-1953) JOKE OF THE DAY WHY did the spider need the internet? Because it wanted to search the web. Guess The Definition answer: B