Obituaries
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Alan Milward: Economic historian celebrated for his analyses of the post-war European project
Alan Milward was an influential historian of European affairs whose work and opinions, both distinguished and controversial, challenged both those in favour of the European project and those opposed to it.
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Doris Magener: Survivor of two World Wars who saw Zeppelins over London and fire bombs in Tokyo
Monday, 6 December 2010
Doris Magener lived a long and unusual life in which she saw Zeppelins bombing London during the First World War and survived the Second World War in Japan.
Briefly: Professor Frank Fenner
Monday, 6 December 2010
Professor Frank Fenner, who died on 22 November at the age of 95, was an Australian microbiologist who led the way in eradicating smallpox. He was also celebrated for his work on the myxoma virus which helped in the suppression of the wild rabbit populations in Australia in the early 1950s.
Monty Sunshine: Clarinettist in the vanguard of the trad-jazz boom of the 1950s and early 1960s
Saturday, 4 December 2010
Monty Sunshine, the clarinettist on the million-selling "Petite Fleur", was at the forefront of the traditional jazz boom in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He had a delightful stage presence and remained modest. "How can any jazz musician get conceited?" he once asked me, "He only has to put on the records of the great masters to wake up to his true status."
Sam Cohen: Creator of the neutron bomb
Saturday, 4 December 2010
Cynics called it "the landlord's bomb," that destroyed people, not property. The US government developed it during the Cold War, and later stockpiled it, but ultimately renounced the device, fearful that it would lower the threshhold of full-scale nuclear war. But in the eyes of its inventor Sam Cohen, the neutron bomb was – for at least the first of those reasons – about the most moral weapon ever devised.
James Freud: Bassist and singer with post-punk band Models
Saturday, 4 December 2010
A week after the Australian band Models were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame, James Freud – who had his biggest success with them in the mid-1980s – took his own life. Freud had a long history of alcoholism and had made several suicide attempts after his career stalled in the late '80s.
Abraham Serfaty: Political activist who fell foul of the French colonial authorities as well as Morocco's King Hassan II
Friday, 3 December 2010
Abraham Serfaty was a leading Moroccan Jewish dissident, who spent his life fighting for independence and democracy in his homeland, first against the French colonial rulers and then King Hassan II's absolute monarchy.
Bella Akhmadulina: Poet who helped liberate Russian literary consciousness following the end of Stalin's rule
Friday, 3 December 2010
Bella Akhmadulina was part of that influential generation of Russian poets, which included Andrei Voznesensky (obituary 5 July 2010), Yevgeny Yevtushenko and others, who sought to liberate the Russian literary consciousness during the Thaw period which followed the end of Stalin's rule. She published more than 20 volumes of verse and was regarded by the writer Joseph Brodsky as a "treasure of Russian poetry".
George Blanda: American footballer who played in the NFL at the age of 48
Friday, 3 December 2010
In a sport where the average career lasts less than four years, George Blanda's lasted 26 seasons. Blanda retired after the 1975 season, at 48 the oldest man to play in a National Football League game, and at the time the only one to have played in four separate decades. His career record for points scored (2,002) stood for 25 years, but his reputation as the ultimate clutch player was cemented in one five-week period in 1970.
Mario Monicelli: Director and screenwriter whose comedies exposed immorality and injustice
Thursday, 2 December 2010
Mario Monicelli, often called "the father of Italian screen comedy", was one of the Italian cinemas greatest craftsmen.
Irwin Silber: Music critic whose influence on the US folk scene brought him into conflict with Bob Dylan
Thursday, 2 December 2010
Irwin Silber was a towering presence in the US folk scene. He edited Sing Out!, the world's longest-lived folk-music magazine, during one of the folk scene's most critical and fraught periods. Famously, in November 1965, he was at the helm when he publicly griped in its pages about Bob Dylan's "reneging" on his protest-song pact and playing amplified music – plus damning him in passing for being seduced by fame. Some commentators later fingered him as the object of Dylan's most bilious piece of vitriol.
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