ON THIS DAY
July 7, 2022
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JULY 7, 1945
BRITISH troops in the Mediterranean theatre have asked that their rations should be reduced to make more food available for their families in Britain. More than 30,000 letters asking for this have been written by soldiers. Their rations have been cut to 3,500 calories a day.
JULY 7, 2000
CHERIE BLAIR flew home from holiday to deal with the family crisis over her son’s ill-fated exam celebrations. The Prime Minister, Tony Blair, was working late on Wednesday night when he heard that euan, 16, had been arrested for being drunk and incapable in Leicester Square and put in a police cell.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
TONY JACKLIN, 78. The golfer from Scunthorpe who won two majors and captained the european Ryder Cup team four times has admitted he lives off social security in the U.S. In 1967, the father of six hit the first televised hole-in-one in Britain, and in 1970 he became the first British player to win the U.S. Open in 50 years. BÉRÉNICE BEJO, 46. The Argentine- born French actress, who starred in A knight’s Tale, was Oscarnominated for her role in 2011 silent film The Artist. She is married to its director, Michel Hazanavicius, and joked he cast her because he ‘didn’t want to hear me any more’.
BORN ON THIS DAY
GUSTAV MAHLER (1860-1911). The Austrian composer and conductor was the second of 14 children. Mahler, who said that ‘a symphony must be like the world, it must embrace everything’, composed a 100-minute work — the longest symphony ever written by a major composer. In 2016, the manuscript of his second symphony — known as the Resurrection — sold for a record £4.5 million.
PAT HITCHCOCK ( 1928- 2021). The London- born, Rada- trained actress made her Broadway debut aged 13 before starring in Psycho, Strangers On A Train and Stage Fright — directed by her father, Alfred Hitchcock. ‘I would have loved it if he had believed in nepotism. But he only cast people if he thought they were absolutely right for the part,’ she once said.
ON JULY 7…
IN 1901, Heidi author Johanna Spyri, 74, died.
IN 1971, Bjorn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Faltskog were celebrating tying the knot. The couple, half of Abba, divorced in 1980.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Woggle (20c)
A) To walk with shoes nearly off the feet. B) A pathway up to a steep hill.
C) The ring of leather through which a scout’s neckerchief is threaded.
Answer below.
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Go to Davy Jones’s locker: Meaning to be drowned at sea; it is used as a euphemism for drowning or for shipwrecks in which the sailors’ and ships’ remains are consigned to the ocean’s depths.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Being nasty doesn’t require intellect; any moron can be abusive. The distinguishing factor of great wit is to be nasty with style.
Kenneth Williams, English actor (1926-1988)
JOKE OF THE DAY
DID you hear about the bread factory burning down?
They say the business is toast. Guess The Definition answer: C.