When I was a young shaver a couple of Americans wrote and performed a song called Mrs Robinson. This was voted record of the year today in 1969 and we all went to see the unknown Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate where it appeared again. So did Mrs Robinson, played by the deliciously naughty Anne Bancroft.
So thanks, guys, to Messrs Simon and Garfunkel, Hoffman and Bancroft for making a young man very happy.
'Here's to you, Mrs Robinson!'
In other news ...
The British army occupied Bordeaux today in 1813 under the command of Arthur Wellesley, the Viscount Wellington (he got the Dukedom later). This was the memorable occasion when he said of his sweating, grunting infantry 'I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but by God, they frighten me.'
They frightened the French too and I'm afraid I don't have room today for a list of all their victories.
Ah, the Entente Uncordiale!
