ON THIS DAY FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
March 7, 2019
MARCH 7, 1941
A SECRET Dutch organisation is using arms, poisons, acids and razors to terrorise Nazi troops in Holland.
The secret society’s aim is ‘to make the life of German troops in Holland as difficult as possible’, according to the court-martial official prosecutor in Amsterdam, who yesterday sentenced 18 Dutchmen — all alleged members — to death.
MARCH 7, 1967
HOLLYWOOD has dropped its financial backing for the £3 million film The Battle Of Britain because it doesn’t show the Americans winning the famous war.
Mr Charles Bluhdorn, boss of Paramount Pictures, which was to have backed the film, found the script ‘awfully English’.
Canadian producer Mr Harry Saltzman said last night that Mr Bluhdorn wanted ‘traditional American interest’ injected into the film, ‘maybe some American who would shoot down more planes than the Battle of Britain aces’. But Mr Saltzman refuses to rewrite history.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
RACHEL WEISZ, 49, (right). The actress from london won a Bafta last month for her part in The Favourite. She is married to James Bond star Daniel Craig and gave birth to their first child together last year, aged 48. MATTHEW VAUGHN, 48. The English producer of lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels directed the Kingsman films. Growing up, he was told he was the result of an affair his mother had with U.S. actor Robert Vaughn. But he later discovered he was, in fact, the son of aristocrat George Harley de Vere Drummond, godson of George VI.
BORN ON THIS DAY
ANDREA LEVY (1956-2019). The author from london, who died last month, won the Orange Prize and whitbread Book of the year for Small Island, turned into a BBC drama starring Naomie Harris and Benedict Cumberbatch. MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937). The French composer’s best-known works include Shéhérazade and Bolero, which accompanied Torvill and Dean’s gold medal-winning performance at the 1984 winter Olympics.
ON MARCH 7 . . .
IN 1969, Golda Meir, 70, ( right) came out of retirement to be elected the first female prime minister of Israel.
IN 1999, U.S film director Stanley Kubrick died, aged 70, at his home near St Albans, Herts. He was best known for his movies 2001: A Space Odyssey and 1971’s A Clockwork Orange, banned in the UK at Kubrick’s request after it was blamed for a spate of copycat violent crimes.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Bombilation (1721) A) The humming of bees B) A fit of depression C) A stomach ache Answer below PHRASE EXPLAINED
To start from scratch: means to start from the very beginning, with the idea of setting out without any preparation or knowledge; ‘scratch’ from the mid-18th century in cricket and boxing meant a line scratched on the ground acting as a boundary.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
A SAD soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ. John Steinbeck, U.S. author (1902-1968)
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHY don’t composers use email? They write notes. Word wizardry answer: A