ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE JANUARY 10, 1945
AMEriCAnS both on the Western Front and in the U.S. have been upset by a broadcast which they thought came from the BBC, saying that Field- Marshal Montgomery saved the day in the Battle of the Bulge, to the disparagement of the Americans. The broadcast, however, did not come from the BBC. it came from a German station which uses a BBC wavelength to slip in items designed to cause friction between the British and the Americans.
JANUARY 10, 1969
AMEriCA’S t hree Moon men [ t he astronauts of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon] agreed today: space flights are no task for women. Their leader, 40-year- old Frank Borman, said: ‘i have never been one who felt it was required for women to go into space. i don’t look to the day when we will have lady astronauts.’
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
ABBEy CLAnCy, 32. The model, TV presenter, former Strictly winner (pictured) and wife of footballer Peter Crouch has been described as the ‘ultimate Wag’ but once said she ‘couldn’t care less if someone says i look like a bag of rags’. The mum of three’s younger brother Sean is also a footballer, for Telford United. MArJOriE WALLACE, 75. The founder and chief executive of mental health charity Sane played a crucial role in revealing the Thalidomide scandal as an investigative reporter on The Sunday Times and was for several years the mistress of Lord Snowdon, former husband of Princess Margaret.
BORN ON THIS DAY
PAUL HEnrEiD (1908-92). The Austrianborn actor arrived in the U.S. with his wife in 1940 with just £20 between them. Only two years later, he starred in his most famous role, as resistance leader Victor Laszlo in Casablanca. He was not just an anti-nazi on film. He had been designated an ‘official enemy of the Third reich’ and had all his assets seized after helping a Jewish comedian friend escape from Berlin. rAy BOLGEr (1904-87). The U.S. actor, best known as the scarecrow in The Wizard Of Oz ( pictured with Judy Garland) was the last survivor of the four characters who followed the yellow Brick road in the 1939 film. He never had extra payments for TV showings. ‘ray didn’t get money,’ his wife said, ‘just immortality’.
ON JANUARY 10 . . .
IN 1840, the ‘Penny Post’ was introduced, with every half- ounce letter costing 1d. Before that, the cost had been calculated based on distance.
IN 1946, the first General Assembly of the Un — some 51 nations, four-fifths of the world’s population — convened in London.
IN 1957, Harold Macmillan became Prime Minister after the sudden resignation of Sir Anthony Eden.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Scombroid (1841) A) resembling the mackerel. B) Having an S-shape. C) ill-balanced or shaky. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED To bandy words:
Meaning to argue with a negative connotation; bandy was originally a game of hockey as well as a form of tennis in which the ball was bandied (or struck) from one side to the other.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
I doN’t mind how much my ministers talk, as long as they do what I say. Ex-PM Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013) JOKE OF THE DAY WHAT is a porcupine’s favourite food? Prickled onions. Guess the definition Answer: A. Compiled by ETAN SMALLMAN and ADAM JACOT DE BOINOD