Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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[Thanks, CB]
It has been suspected, here and there, that few people have an impact on world affairs, this fellow certainly gave it a go...
Adieu Hélie de Saint Marc, Soldat
prisoner at Buchenwald, actor in a coups d'é•tat
he fought and lost in Indo-China and failed to take Algiers
pardoned and out of prison he was reconciled with his peers...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/10268048/Helie-de-Saint-Marc.htmlIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Farewell Jesse Marcel Jr, a child of Roswell
he grew to be a Flight Surgeon with the rank of Colonel
awoken in the night by his father with great news to share
it is said he had truth within, "The truth is out there"...
News story...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/28/roswell-jesse-marcel-diesIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Cliff Morgan dies aged 83...later.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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excellent rugby union commentator.
Guest 661- Registered: 16 Mar 2008
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Must agree with you Howard excellent player too, Played for Wales from 1951 to 1958, captain in 1956. played for the Barbarians 1950 to 1958. superb fly half wizzing all round the pitch. First saw him play at Cardiff when I was very small in 1956/57 which first got me hooked on rugby.
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In the meantime...
The Greatest Try of All Time, 1973 All Blacks vs. Barbarians
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Farewell Clifford Isaac Morgan, Sport and Sportsman
a star on the field and off, of every sport a fan
a voice known to millions, tuned in Rugby's singing lands
" A slight, dark figure with beautiful balance, elusive movement and fine hands"...
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2013/aug/29/cliff-morgan
A bit more on the man and his life...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/sport-obituaries/10273806/Cliff-Morgan.htmlIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 744- Registered: 20 Mar 2012
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Thank you for the info Tom. Cliff Morgan was an excellent commentator with a lovely voice. Sadly far too many commentators love the sound of their own voices and forget the beauty of silence now and again and are reluctant to "shut the heck up".
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Farewell Maurice Bridgeland, Teacher
an educational psychotherapist pioneer
for maladjusted children he would re-focus their bent
later he took to his roots with a book about farm life in the Weald of Kent...
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/29/maurice-bridgeland-obituaryIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Farewell Seamus Heaney, Poet Pedagogue
the stroke city Merlin that held all agog
throughout his life 'twas luck that lit the way
a man of fun and jollity, forever havin' a Field Day
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/30/seamus-heaney
Seamus Heaney reads from Human Chain - books podcast
Seamus Heaney, who has died aged 74, won the Forward prize for poetry in 2010 with his last collection, Human Chain. Here he reads poems including 'The Conway Stewart', 'Uncoupled' and 'Human Chain' from the collection at the Poetry Prom in Aldeburgh...
http://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2013/aug/30/seamus-heaney-human-chain-podcastIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Farewell John Hollander, Pedagogue & Poet, Lecturer & Librettist
admired by WH Auden, a friend to Allen Ginsberg - although he did not Beat it
no seclusion like his (above) contemporary
instead his was a league of Ivy...
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/30/john-hollander
Some of his poetry...
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15561Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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So much for Poets, for the time being anyway. Today a Painter, a painter of small town fishing fleets.
Farewell John Bellany, acclaimed Painter
"I love to paint. At heart, however, I am a mariner."
wherever he lived he was drawn to the fisherman's bait
had new-found fame too, with painting Ian Botham's portrait...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10274525/John-Bellany.html
The story of almost a different guy...
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/sep/02/john-bellany
Some of his work...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/john-bellany
The Botham portrait...
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw07127/Ian-Botham?LinkID=mp05094&role=sit&rNo=0Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Farewell, good evening and ta-ta...Sir David Frost dies...this is only 'breaking news' as yet.
"ir David Frost, the journalist and broadcaster whose lengthy career covered everything from cutting-edge 60s satire to heavyweight interviews and celebrity gameshows has died aged 74.
Frost, whose programmes included That Was The Week That Was and The Frost Report, has died following a suspected heart attack, the BBC said.
Frost, who was knighted in 1993, also helped establish London Weekend Television and TV-am, and was famed for his political interviews, most notably with the US president, Richard Nixon, in 1977.
More details soon . . ."
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/sep/01/david-frost-dies-74-heart-attackIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
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Farewell David Frost, a Broadcasting colossus
a pillar of the Temple of Journalism, and the owner of a formidable story-proboscis
ever at the doorstep of power, with his eye to the key-hole, and effect with a cause
Breakfast TV, a telling chat with Nixon;spin-offs from the monumental That-Was-The-Week-That-Was...
Obit (to follow?)...
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/sep/01/david-frost-dies-74-heart-attack
TW3...(one whole episode...)
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TW3 looking back over 1963...TW3 - Death of President Kennedy
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Jan Higgins
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A great broadcaster who had a heart attack while giving a speech on the QE2, a shock for his family but what a way to leave this earthly coil.
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Goodbye, good night and farewell David.
Another lovely man gone, but he won't be forgotten.
RIP David Frost xx
There's always a little truth behind every "Just kidding", a little emotion behind every "I don't care" and a little pain behind every "I'm ok".
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The Preacher son of a Preacher man, born in Tenterden Kent...
David Paradine Frost...
http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/sep/01/sir-david-frost
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10278859/Sir-David-Frost.html
An aside...
"I was in the same class as David Frost in the sixth form at Wellingborough grammar school. We always thought his mannerisms were a perfect "takeoff" of our history teacher, Mr Tompkins.
John Mann
Irchester, Northamptonshire
I was two years behind David Frost at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He once borrowed 6d for the telephone. I never got it back. I regret his passing.
Giles Youngs
Drinkstone, Suffolk"
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Farewell Lydia Gridneff, Circus troubadour
Her family and she left mother Russia for a lengthy world tour
they spent the war years touring the UK and later in variety
her final time was spent happily in a residential home in Canterbury...
http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/sep/02/lydia-gridneff-obituaryIgnorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Keith Sansum1
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I was lucky enough when he chaired a question time in Dover town hall to be one of the 6 questions raised by the audience to the panel.
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