ON THIS DAY
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE MARCH 21, 1940
Hans ALBERT LInDL is British. His father is German, his mother is English, and both they and Hans’s brother live in Germany. Hans, 24, who lives in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, went before the Southeastern Conscientious Objectors’ Tribunal yesterday. His objection to defending Britain is that he does not want to fight against his brother. However, the judge did not exempt him from military service.
MARCH 21, 1968
ACTOR Cary Grant, right, was an ‘apostle of LSD’, his estranged wife told a divorce court today. During their marriage, he took the drug once a week, said 30-year-old actress Dyan Cannon. Miss Cannon, who married Mr Grant in July 1965, parted from him 17 months later.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
MATTHEW BRODERICK, 57. The Hollywood and Broadway actor, best known for starring in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, is married to sex And The City’s sarah Jessica Parker. He says he is ‘a big hider’ and they often argue over whether to go out in disguise. He is set to make his West End debut, in kenneth Lonergan’s play The starry Messenger, in May. ADRIAN CHILEs, 52. The Radio 5 Live presenter was one of the highest-paid people on British TV — earning £4.6 million in 2013 as the face of ITV football. With Christine Bleakley (now married to ex-England footballer Frank Lampard), he went on to host ITV’s ill-fated show Daybreak, and said of relationship rumours between them: ‘It was like West Brom being linked with Ronaldo ... it’s not going to happen.’
BORN ON THIS DAY
BRIAN CLOUGH ( 1935- 2004). The Middlesbrough-born footballer, the sixth of nine children, became the youngest and then longest-serving manager in the Football League. When awarded an OBE, the controversial and larger-than-life character quipped it stood for ‘Old Big ’Ead’. In 1989, he was fined £5,000 after hitting nottingham Forest fans who had invaded the pitch. FORREST MARs ( 19041999). The u.s. confectioner ( right), who invented Maltesers and M&Ms, was so reclusive he refused interviews didn’t speak to his workforce, avoided photographers and wore disguises to meetings. Dubbed the Howard Hughes of Candyland, he invented the Mars bar in the uk in 1932 marketing it as a health product.
ON MARCH 21…
IN 1946, a Bill was published outlining Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan’s plans for a national Health service.
IN 2006, the very first Twitter post was made by co-founder Jack Dorsey ‘ just setting up my twttr’. About 500 million tweets are now posted every day.
WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Lactivism (2011) A) Laziness. B) Truancy. C) support for breastfeeding. Answer below PHRASE EXPLAINED
Sling one’s hook: Meaning to go away and comes from 19th-century Britain. Either the hook is a ship’s anchor — the phrase meant to raise and stow the anchor before sailing away — or it is a hook, on which a miner’s clean clothes were kept to wear after work.
QUOTE FOR TODAY
Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it. David Lee Roth, U.S. rock star
JOKE OF THE DAY
WHAT do you call a duck who’s always telling jokes? A wise-quacker. Guess the Definition answer: C.