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Re: Departed During 2023

#21 Post by Wodrick » Mon Jan 16, 2023 5:05 pm

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Gina Lollobrigida: Italian screen star dies at 95.
My Dad, who has been dead for more than 30years will roll in his urn. Great luster was he.

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#22 Post by TheGreenAnger » Tue Jan 17, 2023 6:37 am

Buona Sera Mrs. Campbell is one of my favourite films. RIP Ms Lollobrigida!

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"So much comfort for one young woman..." =))

Best line "I couldn't call myself Mrs Coca Cola"... =))

Tis a superb film...
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#23 Post by Wodrick » Thu Jan 19, 2023 10:58 pm

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#25 Post by TheGreenAnger » Fri Jan 27, 2023 7:57 pm

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/ ... d-obituary
Donald Trelford, who has died from cancer aged 85, edited the Observer, the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper, for 18 years from 1975, while fighting for much of that time to preserve its existence, its editorial integrity and its separate identity under three successive owners in less than two decades.

The Observer, to which he first contributed sports reports as a freelance while still a student – three guineas for 300 words on a rugby match – was the focus of his career for nearly 30 years. Some editors are writers, some technicians, able to design and lay out pages: Trelford was both. He could write with facility and enthusiasm about a range of sports from cricket to snooker, but also tap out editorials and news reports, and each Saturday design the paper’s front page.

At a time when the Observer struggled to compete with the much better resourced and flamboyant Sunday Times and came close to bankruptcy, Trelford managed to keep the show on the road and enhanced its reputation as a writers’ paper, covering the arts distinctively and foreign affairs incisively with a formidable roster of journalists. They included, at various times, Clive James, as the paper’s television critic, the columnists Katharine Whitehorn and Sue Arnold, Geoffrey Lean, the first environment correspondent appointed by a national newspaper, Simon Hoggart and Alan Watkins covering politics, Jonathan Mirsky in China, Julie Flint in Lebanon, and Hugh McIlvanney on sport.

Trelford was born in Coventry, the son of Doris (nee Gilchrist), who had been a cook in domestic service before her marriage to Tom Trelford, originally a delivery driver who later became a sales manager for a wholesale tobacconist. Both grandfathers had been miners in the Durham coalfield and Tom had headed south to avoid the same fate. Trelford’s earliest memory was being carried by his mother to an air-raid shelter on the night of the German blitz on Coventry in November 1940: the family home was near a car factory that was heavily bombed. He was educated at junior schools in the north-east, to where the family was evacuated, and then back in Coventry; at secondary level he won a scholarship to attend the fee-paying Bablake independent day school.

Trelford did his national service in the RAF, becoming a pilot officer, before taking up a scholarship to Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he studied English and wrote for the university magazine Varsity. Seeing an advertisement in an office window in Coventry for a reporter on the local weekly paper, he took the post during the summer holiday without telling the editor that he was still at university. Within weeks he was made chief reporter.

On graduation, Trelford won a place on the training scheme run by the Thomson chain of regional papers, on the Sheffield Telegraph, where, in 1963, he spotted an internal memo seeking applicants to become editor of the Times of Nyasaland (subsequently Malawi), which the company owned. The story in his memoir, Shouting in the Street, was that he and his colleague, the future comic writer Peter Tinniswood, broke into the editor’s office at the Sheffield Telegraph late one evening in search of alcohol and he happened to see a letter about the job. Appointed in his mid-20s, Trelford spent three years in southern Africa, also freelancing for the Times, the Observer and the BBC, covering the civil wars in the Congo, Nigeria and Rhodesia.

Back in London in 1966, he was made deputy news editor of the Observer, where he would spend the rest of his career. Trelford’s first Saturday at the paper was the day England won the World Cup and he was appalled to discover that there were no plans to cover the sporting triumph on the front page. Querying this, he was told: “If you think it’s that important you’d better write it”, which he did from agency copy, while McIlvanney dictated the match report over the telephone from Wembley.

Within three years Trelford was deputy to the paper’s long-serving editor David Astor, whose family had owned the newspaper before transferring ownership to a trust. When Astor retired in 1975, Trelford, still in his 30s, was the popular choice of the paper’s journalists to become editor, even winning the confidence of its much older and longer-serving writers.

Beset by a financial crisis and printers’ strikes, the Observer had shed a fifth of its staff and the trust’s chair Lord Goodman told Trelford that the paper would not last six months without new ownership, as the trustees could no longer sustain its losses. He had already privately offered it to Rupert Murdoch, who was yet to buy the Times, but the possibility was seen off in the teeth of opposition from the Observer’s journalists. Within months a saviour was found in the unlikely shape of a Texan oil multimillionaire called Robert O Anderson, the boss of Atlantic Richfield. Anderson, who had probably never heard of the Observer before, agreed over the telephone to buy the paper and arrived in London, dressed in cowboy hat and boots. He borrowed the pound note the deal cost him from Trelford himself.

The paper’s losses continued, however, and within four years Anderson decided to pull out. Lord Rothermere, the owner of the Mail group, had expressed interest but when the oilman rang to sound him out, he was away. Casting around for another who might be interested, Anderson lighted on Roland Rowland, universally known as Tiny because he was so tall, a rapacious corporate businessman and head of the Lonrho corporation. The deal was done in 1981 with a handshake at Claridge’s hotel without Trelford or the paper’s staff knowing that the Observer had been sold, indeed while Anderson was still assuring them it was safe in his hands.

There was considerable fear that Rowland would interfere editorially, in particular over stories about African countries where he had substantial financial interests – Lonrho stood for London-Rhodesia. A challenge was made by Observer journalists to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, which was already investigating Rowland’s attempt to buy the House of Fraser department store chain, the owners of Harrods, in a bitter competition with the Fayed brothers. The purchase of the newspaper was allowed to go ahead with the appointment of a board of independent directors, but Rowland was left aggrieved that he had lost the Harrods battle.

The new owner certainly did try to interfere with the paper’s editorial independence, when Trelford went back to his old haunts to interview Zimbabwe’s leader Robert Mugabe in 1984 and discovered that thousands of Ndebele people opposed to the government had been killed during an uprising in Matabeleland. He informed Rowland about the story only on the night of publication and the furious owner apologised to Mugabe, threatened to close the paper and promised to sack Trelford. The row only blew over after several weeks when the independent directors ruled in favour of the editor.

Although Rowland’s subsequent threat to sell the paper to Robert Maxwell did not eventuate, the paper was later involved in an even bigger fight. The Harrods takeover was referred to the Department of Trade and Industry, which produced a secret report highly critical of the Fayeds, who Rowland was convinced had lied about their finances and duped the government in taking over the company. In the spring of 1990, he obtained a copy of the report, which Trelford published pre-emptively in the first and only-ever midweek edition of the paper on the morning of the Lonrho annual general meeting, before the government could injunct its publication. The move was highly controversial, not least because it appeared to prove Rowland’s commercial intervention in editorial matters once more, but Trelford argued that the report’s findings were important independently of Lonrho’s interests, and he survived once more.

If the row damaged the Observer’s integrity, the arrest and subsequent execution of the freelance journalist Farzad Bazoft by the Iraqi regime in 1990 while he was in the country working on a story for the paper was the worst single tragedy during the editor’s time in charge and it affected Trelford deeply.

The question of the paper’s ownership arose again within a few years, as Rowland was losing his grip on Lonrho and began casting around for a buyer. The newly established Independent had recently started a Sunday edition and was confident that it could buy the Observer, but the move was opposed by the paper’s staff on the grounds that it would be subsumed and its title lost for ever. In the event, the Guardian bought the paper in 1993 and maintained its independent profile. Trelford stood down after 18 years in charge. The following year he became a professor and head of the department of journalism studies at Sheffield University. He continued as visiting professor from 2000 until 2007.

Trelford and his third wife, Claire, retired to Mallorca. He wrote a number of books on sport, and sports columns for the Daily Telegraph, as well as his memoir Shouting in the Street, published in 2017, and a book of selected journalism, Heroes & Villains, in 2020.

He is survived by Claire (nee Bishop), a television producer, whom he married in 2001, and their son, Ben, and daughter, Poppy; a son, Paul, and daughter, Sally, from his first marriage, to Janice Ingram, which ended in divorce; and a daughter, Laura, from his second marriage, to Kate Mark, which also ended in divorce. Another son, Tim, from his first marriage, predeceased him.

Donald Gilchrist Trelford, journalist and editor, born 9 November 1937; died 27 January 2023
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#26 Post by TheGreenAnger » Fri Jan 27, 2023 7:58 pm

FD2 wrote:
Fri Jan 27, 2023 6:44 pm
Sylvia Syms



A great film and a very beautiful woman.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Syms
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#27 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:29 pm

Hazel McCallion, aged 101. Former Mayor of Mississauga, ON.
After being in office only a few months, in 1979, a 106 car chemical and explosives train derailed in the centre of the city. The initial fireball was over 5,000 ft high and visible 60 miles away. Hazel co-ordinated the complete evacuation of the city's 200,000 inhabitants in the biggest evacuation in North America until Hurricane Katrina. No one was killed or injured. The event served as a model for other cities' evacuation plans, and Hazel was re-elected 11 times by landslides until finally retiring aged 93. She didn't waste any money or time campaigning for re-election. In addition, she managed the city's business environment such that many large companies shifted their headquarters there, rapidly making it the 7th biggest city in Canada, whilst also getting developers to pay for infrastructure upgrades.
She was still Director of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority at her death.

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#28 Post by TheGreenAnger » Mon Jan 30, 2023 6:12 am

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Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:29 pm
Hazel McCallion, aged 101. Former Mayor of Mississauga, ON.
After being in office only a few months, in 1979, a 106 car chemical and explosives train derailed in the centre of the city. The initial fireball was over 5,000 ft high and visible 60 miles away. Hazel co-ordinated the complete evacuation of the city's 200,000 inhabitants in the biggest evacuation in North America until Hurricane Katrina. No one was killed or injured. The event served as a model for other cities' evacuation plans, and Hazel was re-elected 11 times by landslides until finally retiring aged 93. She didn't waste any money or time campaigning for re-election. In addition, she managed the city's business environment such that many large companies shifted their headquarters there, rapidly making it the 7th biggest city in Canada, whilst also getting developers to pay for infrastructure upgrades.
She was still Director of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority at her death.
Mississauga on the mind this week, as my Norfolk based nephew is going to stay with a friend in Mississauga this week, so I contacted the South African mafia in Mississauga to keep an eye on him! My business colleague's South African born wife's family closed their electronics factory in Johannesburg and moved it and themselves lock stock and smoking diode to Mississauga due to the incentives that Hazel McCallion had put in place to attract useful investment and skills to her patch. The factory in Johannesburg closed on the Friday and opened again in Mississauga on the Monday. South Africa's loss being Canada's, and now the USA's gain, as they have prospered mightily in hard working, sensible Mississauga, which is also where one of my own clients is based.
Hazel McCallion, CM, OOnt (née Journeaux; February 14, 1921 – January 29, 2023) was a Canadian businesswoman and politician who served as the fifth mayor of Mississauga from 1978 until 2014.[

McCallion was first elected in November 1978, and is the longest-serving mayor in the city's history, having served for 36 years at the time of her retirement in 2014. She was a successful candidate in twelve municipal elections, having been acclaimed twice and re-elected ten other times. Her supporters gave her the nickname "Hurricane Hazel" because of her outspoken political style with reference to the Hurricane of 1954, which had a considerable impact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_McCallion

French origins! Anglophone companies being alienated by political extremists and language chauvinists and moving to Toronto (there is a symmetry here somewhere)! :)
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#29 Post by FD2 » Mon Jan 30, 2023 6:41 pm

Ralph Ehrmann

Entrepreneur who helped turn Airfix into global hit dies aged 97: German-born businessman and WWII RAF navigator transformed modelling kit firm into one of the biggest in British toy industry

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ed-97.html

Anyone here not made an Airfix kit? :D

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#30 Post by G-CPTN » Mon Jan 30, 2023 7:26 pm

I started buying Airfix kits from Woolworths packed in simple polythene bags early 50s.
WW1 fighters, and, later, Spitfire and Hurricane and models like the Walrus and the Lancaster as they were released - I recall buying them as soon as they were released.
But the first was the Ferguson tractor - wish they would have repeated it. I learned so much from building (and playing with) the Fergie that I was able to correct owners who had assembled their full-size vehicles wrong.

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#31 Post by TheGreenAnger » Tue Jan 31, 2023 1:00 am

FD2 wrote:
Mon Jan 30, 2023 6:41 pm
Ralph Ehrmann

Entrepreneur who helped turn Airfix into global hit dies aged 97: German-born businessman and WWII RAF navigator transformed modelling kit firm into one of the biggest in British toy industry

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ed-97.html

Anyone here not made an Airfix kit? :D
What an interesting guy. Built many an Airfix kit aircraft but never knew about Ralph Ehrmann. His surname is the perfect homonym isn't it? :)
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#32 Post by k3k3 » Tue Jan 31, 2023 2:05 pm

Ehrmann means husband in German, so he couldn't have spent all his time making his kits. :ymdevil:

I started with the aeroplanes and when it seemed that I'd made all the kits that were out there I went on to the ships, cars, historical figures, in fact anything.

My grandparents should have bought shares in Airfix, they were probably a large part of its success.

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#33 Post by G-CPTN » Tue Jan 31, 2023 2:11 pm

Sadly, my grandsons have shown absolutely zero interest in building models.

I have several kits still in their boxes which look destined for the tip after my demise.

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My necessaries are embark'd: farewell. Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave.

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#35 Post by Wodrick » Thu Feb 09, 2023 4:58 pm

Wrote a good song did our Bert - RIP

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#36 Post by Karearea » Thu Feb 09, 2023 5:05 pm

Truly gifted.
Thank you for the music.
And with the morn, those angel faces smile...

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#37 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Thu Feb 09, 2023 5:58 pm

Can't be too many composers who have been covered by artists in such a range of genres, e.g. The Beatles, The Carpenters, The Stranglers, Bomb The Bass, and Elvis Costello.
Class of One, I think.

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#38 Post by PHXPhlyer » Thu Feb 09, 2023 6:20 pm

An Emmy short of EGOT status.

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#39 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Fri Feb 10, 2023 7:31 pm

Hugh Hudson, film director, 86
Oscar for 'Chariots of Fire', but perhaps better known here for his previous film


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/0 ... s-aged-86/

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#40 Post by TheGreenAnger » Sat Feb 11, 2023 7:39 am

I had never heard of Hugh Hudson. An interesting chap.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Hudson

I note he worked on Midnight Express and, yes, there's the Vangelis theme tune again.

I see he directed I Dream of Africa, which I never saw but did rate the very tragic biography. I note that the film failed commercially.

I also note he was nominated for a A Golden Raspberry award for his film Revolution! Given all the good stuff he was involved with I am amazed that I didn't know his name.
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