And when a scrum goes pear-shaped to that degree, questions tend to be asked of the man occupying the most physically demanding and, many aficionados would argue, the single most important position on the paddock: the tight-head prop.
The Lions tight head is, and was always going to be, Phil Vickery: a man of Devon (he was born in Barnstaple), of Cornwall (the family farm is in the north of the county, near Bude), and of Gloucestershire (he is the latest in an almost Biblical line of Kingsholm props to have made the grade at international level). Like any good tiller of the soil, he does not mince his words. Listen to him on the subject of last week’s trauma at the Colonial Stadium: “We were complacent, I think; we went out there with the idea that we were world-beaters. Well, the Wallabies put us right on that one, didn’t they? So it’s been down to brass tacks this week – work, work and more work. There have been a fair few scrums in training and, while it has been difficult to take at the end of an 11-month season, not one of us has complained.
We brought it on ourselves, you see.”These last six weeks or so have been anything but straightforward for the Lions scrummagers, who arrived in Australia as potential series winners. In the early matches, notably those in Queensland, the local opposition avoided serious set-piece contact like the plague: during the game against the Reds at Ballymore, the Scot Tom Smith told Martin Johnson and Danny Grewcock to stop pushing from the second row, because he was propping against thin air. Then, in Gosford, Jason Leonard and David Young were penalised to high heaven by the New Zealand referee Paul Honiss, who fell hook, line and sinker for the chicanery of the born-awkward New South Walian tight head, Rod Moore.When Moore was called into the Australian side for the second Test following the demise of the ineffective Glenn Panoho, the Lions management immediately smelled a rat. Graham Henry, the head coach, described the newcomer as “an irritation”, and did his best to alert the Test officials to what he considered a deliberate Wallaby attempt to remove the heat from the set-piece. As it turned out, Moore played particularly well in Melbourne.
So too did Nick Stiles, the inexperienced Queenslander on the loose head. The Wallabies attacked the Lions in the tourists’ area of greatest strength, and pulled off a spectacular coup.”I didn’t know quite what to expect when I came here,” admitted Vickery. “In some ways, the tour of South Africa four years ago must have been easier to assess in advance, purely because of the historic importance of the scrum in Springbok rugby. When the Lions travelled in ‘97, everyone said: ‘Watch out, suckers; Os du Randt is going to stamp all over you.’ The boys took that as an incentive, and worked out a way of using the strength of the Springbok scrum to their own advantage It’s not like that here. The Wallabies have a reputation as a great all-round side, but not as a great scrummaging unit.”And quite honestly, some of the scrummaging down here borders on pantomime. If I had to scrum like some of the Australians, I wouldn’t bother You long to say: ‘Come on, let’s see what you’ve got. This is a game of rugby, not a tea party.’ But there is no point in whingeing, and anyway, I wouldn’t take anything from the Wallaby front row we confronted last week.
troops set out in a bilateral accord, ending months of speculation about whether U.S. plants.The company stressed that this is not a foodborne illness and the Americanfood supply is safe and pork and pork products are safe. In any case, Smithfield does not own or operate hog farms or pork processingplants in Canada, nor does it process Canadian raised hogs at any of thecompany’s U.S. Furthertests are underway to determine whether the virus in these animals is theA(H1N1) virus which is currently causing illness in humans. The company issued this statement following the announcement by the CanadianFood Inspection Agency (CFIA) that officials have tentatively confirmed thatswine from a herd in Alberta, Canada, have tested positive for H1N1.
A poll released on Saturday showed the Liberals havemaintained the narrow lead they took over the Conservatives inMarch, although Harper led Ignatieff when voters were asked whowas best to lead the country. Given these circumstances, home health care workers can expectto be called on to provide care for two main populations of patients:–Those medical and surgical patients, not hospitalized because of thepandemic, who are well enough to be discharged early from hospitals tofree up hospital beds for more severely ill patients.–Patients who become or already are dependent on home health careservices (predominantly elderly persons with chronic disease) and willcontinue to need in-home care during the influenza pandemic whether ornot they become infected with the influenza virus.–The demand for home health care services during a pandemic influenzaoutbreak is likely to exceed the home health care industry’scurrent capacity to respond. ($1=.7528 Euro) (Additional reporting by Tyler Sitte in Frankfurt, editing byMaureen Bavdek) Stocks Regulatory News Mergers & Acquisitions Global Markets Private Capital. German magazine WirtschaftsWoche cited sources close to thetalks as saying Fiat had made an offer for Opel of less than 1billion euros, which GM considered inadequate. Steinmeier hasspearheaded government efforts to keep Opel alive.
LONG-TERM STRATEGY Fiat is set on acquiring Opel after it struck a last-minutedeal to buy an initial 20 percent of Chrysler [CBS.UL] onThursday, just ahead of the deadline set by the Obamaadministration to cement a partnership. automaker Chrysler, will meetGerman government ministers on Monday to discuss a bid forGerman car maker Opel, part of GM Europe. * Combined company would have yearly rev of 80 bln euros Stocks | Regulatory News | Mergers & Acquisitions | Global Markets | Private Capital * Fiat CEO meets German ministers on Monday * German minister: Fiat must present long-term Opel plan (Releads with Fiat statement; adds second byline) By Ian Simpson and Erik Kirschbaum MILAN/BERLIN, May 3 (Reuters) – Italy’s Fiat SpA (FIA.MI)could seek a merger of its auto group with General MotorsCorp’s GM.N Europe unit, then spin off the combined companyand list it, Fiat said on Sunday. Operating income return on average equity for the twelve monthsended March 31, 2009 was calculated by dividing operating income for this periodby the average ending balance of share owners` equity (excluding accumulatedother comprehensive income (loss)) for the five most recent quarters. * During the first quarter of 2009, we recorded $89.8 million of pre-tax creditrelated loss other-than-temporary impairments. * Our net unrealized loss position was $3.1 billion, prior to tax and DACoffsets, and $1.6 billion, after tax and DAC offsets.
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The late Chris Farley appears in new ad to the chagrin of some fans.
FILADELFIA–(Business Wire)–Fanáticos de Twilight anoten en sus calendarios… Most importantly, he returns to the team with which he became a superstar.He has instantly injected the city with excitement for the Mariners’ upcoming season, even among those who aren’t the biggest sports fans. Has a reputation as a smooth operator behind the scenes,making him fit to lead the unruly Socialists. Victor Moses has had enquiries made about his availibilty by teams such as Manchester United and Barcelona but Neil Warnock insists after losing Jon Bostock he is unwilling to part with anymore youngsters.James McCarthy of scottish team Hamilton has rustled the feathers of Liverpool and Barcelona, the strong tackling 18 year old midfielder born in Glasgow, represents the Republic of Ireland National Side and has played a few times for the Republic Of Ireland national side.By far my favourite youngster is Mario Balotelli of FC Internazionale he is 17 years old and a brilliant goalscoring attacker. I played all kinds of sports in school, but lacrosse was my game.The highlight of my career was when Ryan Powell and I shared MVP honors at the 1996 All-Star Game He went on to a lucrative lacrosse career Let’s just say I did not.
Some say that McGwire admitted this to cover up that he was using other illegal steroids, but this is justhearsay. When McGwire went in front of congress to testify, he took the fifth when asked if he used steroids. He has every right to do this no matter how guilty it makes him look. At least by taking the fifth he didn’t lie like Rafael Palmerio did, Palmerio said he has never done steroids but later tested positive. Allegations rage on, on what McGwire did or didn’t do. Rachesky’s MHR Fund Management LLC, which controls a 19.999percent stake in Lions Gate, said in a filing this month it is”principally supportive” of the media company’s “management andtheir publicly stated strategies.” [ID:nN18333693] MHR said it has had preliminary talks with Lions Gate aboutnominating a candidate to the studio’s board. military to fight al Qaeda, took place in the central Baghdad district of al-Fadhil after the arrest of Adil al-Mashhadani and one of his men.Relations are tense between the Shi’ite-led government and the fighters, who numbered 100,000 nationwide at one point, and many fear being targeted for their insurgent past.”We captured 14 people wanted by Iraqi justice in al-Fadhil district and we found weapons,” Baghdad security spokesman Qassim al-Moussawi said after police and troops, backed by tanks and U.S. The more he mentions Bradford’s allegedly stellar accuracy, the more likely Heisman voters will think, “Boy, that Bradford sure is accurate.”I was curious.Presumably, passing “precision” and passing “accuracy” are reflected in completion percentage.
If United win their game in hand, we’re three points behind Liverpool and just two points behind Chelsea. He has favorable matchups coming up against the Lions and Cardinals in Weeks 14 and 15. Tight EndMatt Spaeth (Steelers)- Spaeth did a formidable job filling in for starting TE Heath Miller last week. andEuropean shares fell on renewed worries about the health of banksand the collapse of IBM’s (IBM.N) takeover bid for SunMicrosystems JAVA.O. Another $13.2 million(nil in the fourth quarter) is recorded against net sales and representsreturned MAGNETIX product inventory from retailers and related penalties. I don’t want to hear it.As you can see, the Sports And The City banner above is comprised of the Toronto skyline along with Mats Sundin, Roy Halladay and Chris Bosh. Nordson Corporation is one of the world`s leading producers of precisiondispensing equipment that applies adhesives, sealants and coatings to a broadrange of consumer and industrial products during manufacturing operations.
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Investors were located who were willing to investtheir good credit, but no money, to be the purchasers of these properties at amuch higher price than that negotiated with the seller. Participants in the schemes located properties and arranged topurchase them at a fair market value generally by means of an option agreementor unrecorded land contract. Multipledefendants are charged in many of the loan transactions.The mortgage fraud schemes charged were all accomplished in the same generalfashion. Each of theindividuals charged are responsible for some, but not all, of the loanscharged as set forth in their respective charging documents. The investigation is not complete and iscontinuing.According to the charges set forth in the seven separate informations, betweenNovember 2003 and August 2005, a total of 149 fraudulent loans amounting to$19.7 million dollars were obtained by the charged defendants from threedifferent lenders, including 60 loans from the Argent Mortgage Company, 86loans from People’s Choice Mortgage / Countrywide Home Loans, and three loansfrom The Money Station The total estimated loss is $8,055,243. The charges follow an investigation by Special Agents of the Internal RevenueService – Criminal Investigation Division (IRS-CI) and the U.S Attorney’sOffice, with assistance by the FBI. The last threeindividuals were each charged with one count of wire fraud and one count ofmoney laundering.
Brown, 44, of IndianapolisThe first four individuals were each charged with one count of conspiracy tocommit wire fraud and one count of money laundering. Warren, 40, of IndianapolisMark Roth, 54, of Westfield, Ind.Jerry J Jaquess, 67, of Carmel, Ind.Timothy A. Brown, 66, of Lebanon, Ind.Stephen Scott Brown, 37, of IndianapolisAaron J. District Court in Indianapolis with crimesrelated to an alleged mortgage fraud scheme occurring between 2003 and 2005.They are:Tamara E Scott, a/k/a, Tamara Penn, 49, of IndianapolisDonald T. Morrison, U.S.Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, today announced that sevenpersons were charged in U.S. Seven Charged With Crimes Involving Nearly $20 Million in Fraudulent MortgageLoansINDIANAPOLIS, April 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Timothy M. As soon as they get healthy again, look for them to be in the fight again. .
Halfway through the season, the Blackhawks have a record of 19-21-4. Chicago fans must continue to support the Hawks because they arent out quite yet. Let's just say in the past three games, they might as well of not showed up combining for 2 points and a -7 rating between the three of them. The Hawks look to their three point leaders, Kane, Sharp, and Lang, to get the job done. Goaltending can't be blamed as starting goalie Nikolai Khababulin has a record of 15-15-3, a save percentage of .901 and a GAA of 2.78 Backup tender Patrick Lalime has a season record of 4-5-1.
Most mobile prices in the UK compare favourably with other European countries. And the average cost has declined by 24 per cent since January 1999.If we are a bit complacent, having to price everything in euros would shock us. Compared with France, Brits pay more for transport, property, restaurant meals; likewise the French would see that we pay less for pharmaceutical products, household equipment, clothes. This is why monetary union would eventually be deflationary as consumers came to question differences between members states.
But I am not convinced that this has yet happened on the Continent, even though every invoice shows the amount payable in euros as well as in the local currency. You need euro coins jangling in your pockets before you take notice.It may be, too, that we are not really complainers by nature, though we do more of it than we used to do. Thomas Kielinger, the London correspondent of the German daily, Die Welt, writing in this newspaper last week, gave a list of recent calamities – the state of the NHS and the railways, the London Underground strike, and said that in Germany such imperfections of public services would cause an open revolt. But instead we call upon our “huge reservoirs of forebearance” and an almost Russian capacity for suffering, and stay calm, passive even.Manufacturers and providers of services are also becoming more adept in disguising the true cost. This is done by publishing a bewildering range of prices, discounts, special offers.
As the Consumers’ Association noted with regard to car manufacturers, they brag about price cuts which are really marketing gimmicks; they give reductions with one hand, but take them back with the other by means of specification downgrades; they refuse to cut list prices but offer cash incentives. Likewise Oftel’s research showed that many consumers find information on mobile telephony products confusing.Such practices have been beyond the power of regulators or competition watchdogs until recently. It isn’t market rigging; it isn’t price fixing; it isn’t collusion between competitors; it isn’t monopolistic behaviour. It is the deliberate creation of confusion.There is, however, a solution. It has been found by the regulator of financial services, the Financial Services Authority Markets in financial products have long been opaque.
Rarely is a price as commonly understood actually quoted at all. There are, too, special charges which the consumer bears – the commission earned by sales intermediaries. As a result, it is almost impossible to determine what is the real cost of, say, a personal pension plan.The answer? The FSA is experimenting with establishing what it calls a comparative information scheme. As well as collecting and publishing prices charged by competing providers of a particular product range – where they could be established – such features as financial strength, risk and return, minimum payments, customer service and clarity of literature would be assessed and made widely available to consumers.
The importance of Russia to European security is as obvious to business people as to security specialists. Political and economic turmoil in Russia can have a wider effect.We all wish to see this large and important country emerge from its current difficulties. Indeed, if we want to help bring Russia into the European mainstream, there is only one chance: that North America and Europe do this together. One partner, in particular, is of key importance to Euro-Atlantic security: Russia. At Washington, we will also strengthen our partnerships.The Partnership for Peace programme was established in 1994 as a programme for developing greater practical cooperation in the military and defence- related fields among allies and countries of Central and Eastern Europe Today, 27 countries have taken up the offer by the allies. Our policy is that we expect to invite additional new members to join Nato in future.
To help aspiring countries prepare themselves better for possible Nato membership, we have enhanced many aspects of our co-operation programmes.The summit will be the occasion on which this package of measures will be unveiled. Both enlargements, therefore, are two sides of the same coin. Sixty million people will, through Nato enlargement, be reunited with the European mainstream from which they have been separated for so long. This act of integration is a concrete way of enlarging the area of Europe in which armed conflict and wars simply do not occur.In complementing alliance enlargement, the separate enlargement of the EU will also help to create the basis for both economic progress and political stability. It will forecast the evolution of the alliance into the next millennium. At Washington, allied leaders will welcome into the alliance as full members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.
All these changes will be reflected in our new strategic concept, which will be unveiled at the forthcoming Washington summit in April. What is this strategic concept?In reflecting both the significant political, military and security changes that have taken place in Europe over the past decade, the strategic concept will provide a chart to guide us through the waters ahead. Let me take you briefly through some of the main features of our political agenda, starting with Nato enlargement, our partnership with other European countries, especially Russia, our new missions of crisis management and peace support, and the effort under way to develop a European defence identity in Nato. they are dynamic, not static.
Indeed, it is precisely their potential for evolution that determines their value Nato, for sure, has been anything but standing still. It is a symbol of how countries can strive together for peace, security and stability across a whole continent.
As relatives were paying respects at the casket, a group of young men in black hoods entered and began chasing another youth in the congregation. Shots were fired and finally the man was stabbed nine times before the church’s pastor threw himself on the man and barely saved his life. Homicides have dropped 77 per cent since 1990, more than in any city in the country. More startling is this: the crackdown has been achieved without any sacrificing of racial peace between the police and the community: indeed, racial tensions here are at their lowest in a generation. Contrast this with New York, where the zero-tolerance policies of Mayor Rudy Giuliani have sparked the worst crisis in the city for years – exacerbated since the shooting of an unarmed African immigrant in the Bronx last month by four white police officers.The birth of Ten-Point traces back to a dark day in May 1992.
He has made the cover of Newsweek, and soon he will make a speaking tour in Britain. Tomorrow he visits the White House.It is not just that Boston is enjoying an almost unbelievable collapse in crime rates. He is a co-founder of the Ten-Point Coalition, a group of black clergymen winning plaudits for help- ing spark the “Boston Miracle”. I said I was sending him to prison to keep him alive.”Helping dispatch one of his own flock hardly fits the image of the black pastor in inner-city America. But here he is playing a special role, one that has won him national attention. That one day he would meet the wrong version of himself who would put a bullet in his face.
Like so many in this mostly black neighbourhood, he was in trouble and needed help The minister wants the officer to understand “He is off the hook with the wire cut He’s crazy, a homicide waiting to happen. He needs to be in jail.”
Indeed, Mr Rivers, 48, has just come in from the local courthouse, where he did his part to make sure the boy is incarcerated He urged the judge to show no leniency Earlier, he was at the boy’s home to see the parents “I told them their son was a sociopath. Right now, though, he is on the phone to a Detective Tellilo of the Boston police The conversation is about a 14-year-old boy named Williams. All of this pleases the Reverend Eugene Rivers, insulated from the hubbub in his attic den Kids off the street are safe kids. All through this old Victorian house in Dorchester, one of the toughest corners of Boston, children, teens and grown-ups bounce between rooms, taking messages, watching videos, doing homework, or just talking. And, as usual, the prayers exclude the others, the many Albanians who weep for the dead of Kosovo.. IT IS FRIDAY afternoon, the schools are out and the Ella J Baker House is teeming.
“Today, we are not just crying for these two people, but for all the Serb victims of terrorist crimes,” another mourner said at the Mitrovica funeral. This is Serbia and has to remain Serbia.”As always, the innocent suffer. “It was their decision to quit their jobs and boycott state institutions They should not get a government. “What they want is for Albanians to do what they’re told, to know their place,” said the British major- general. “I don’t think there’s a feeling of wanting to wipe them out. They want to deal severely with those who challenge authority.”The Albanians in Kosovo are second-class citizens.
The Yugoslav government has passed certain laws applicable only to this province. It is illegal for Albanians, for example, to buy real estate of any kind in Kosovo from Serbs. And Serbs who settle in Kosovo are given land from collective farms, grants to build houses and tax-exempt status for a period.But for the Serbs the issue is black and white. “The Serb authorities are not harassing anyone,” said Rade, a teacher. We lived with them for a long time, and it wasn’t a problem,” said Mr Peric. “But now people think differently.” He knows who is to blame, and it is not President Slobodan Milosevic, who stripped Kosovo of its autonomy in 1989.
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Season ticket- holders will be entitled to 370 shares each, worth pounds 500.Mr Corbidge said demand for the shares from City institutions had been “fabulous”, giving the club a “blue chip” shareholder base thought to include Mercury Asset Management and Abbey National.Under the terms of the flotation, Cameron Hall Developments, Sir John’s property company, has agreed to pay pounds 300,000 to Mr Corbidge, pounds 750,000 to Freddie Fletcher, joint chief executive and pounds 100,000 to Josephine Dixon, finance director.The Stock Exchange may now consider creating a stand-alone football classification of the stock market. Under Stock Exchange rules an industry grouping has to account for at least 0.5 per cent of the value of the FT All-Share Index.. In an unmistakable signal that Wall Street has already priced in an interest rate increase widely expected from a meeting of the US Federal Reserve today, the Dow Jones industrial average soared 100 points last night. The unexpected devil-may-care mood ahead of the Fed meeting took hold only in the last hour of trading when the industrial average surged.
Earlier in the day, it had hovered around the unchanged mark. Most economists expect the Fed Open Market Committee to agree a quarter-point interest hike at its monthly meeting in Washington.The increase would represent the first tightening of monetary policy – indeed, the first change in interest rate policy of any kind – by the Fed in 15 months. The fizz on the Dow contrasted, however, with a rocky day on the Nasdaq, which slipped an ominous 11.43 points in what appeared to be a continuation of the fragility shown by most hi-tech stocks through last week.Attention was focused on Microsoft which saw an almost 5 per cent drop in its stock value following news that it would not deliver an updated version of its super-popular Windows 95 system until after this year’s Christmas shopping season.The troubles at Microsoft had a ripple effect on several other tech stocks as traders worried about the consequences for the broader computer sector.Commenting on the Nasdaq’s decline, Tony O’Brien of AG Edwards said: “The correction started in stocks which were fundamentally defective or deficient and then moved into small-caps and mid-caps.”Now you are correcting the big boys.”.
Further lubricating the recent downhill run of hi-tech stocks in New York, shares in Microsoft took a severe tumble yesterday following reports that its revised version of its Windows 95 operating system might be late in coming to the shops. Apparently reacting to fears that the new Windows 95 would not be available until after the next Christmas shipping season, Microsoft saw its shares fall by more than 5 per cent in New York trading.
The deterioration in Microsoft’s short-term prospects delivered another blow to the already fragile hi-tech sector. By midday yesterday, the technology-heavy Nasdaq exchange was down a significant 15 points.Although the Nasdaq had been slipping through several trading sessions, Microsoft’s troubles threatened a ripple effect with investors fearing negative consequencies for the wider computer sector. Among stocks that were also hit yesterday were Intel, Hewlett Packard, Dell and IBM.At lunch Microsoft was down $41/2 to $891/2, leaving the company’s stock at its lowest level since January. Microsoft was also the heaviest-traded stock on already nervous Nasdaq.The decline in the Nasdaq added to wider unease on Wall Street as investors awaited today’s meeting of the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee.
There is general anticipation that Fed chairman Alan Greenspan will finally nudge the committee to increase interest rates in the United States for the first time in 15 months. Even so, the expected tightening in monetary conditions had apparently been priced into most stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average which, after fairly strong early gains, was hovering around the unchanged mark.. Economy A is growing faster than its sustainable trend, unemployment is at its lowest for years and pay inflation is creeping up. The financial markets have been prepared to expect a small increase in interest rates that will allow the recovery to continue without being blown off course by rising inflation. The authorities are steering a delicate course between boom and bust, so far very successfully. Economy B is also growing at a pace above trend, has rapidly falling unemployment and rising wage inflation.
However, a rise in interest rates would be greeted with utter astonishment. For economy A is, of course, the US, nicely the right side of the presidential elections, and economy B is the UK in the heat of the longest election campaign this century. In the US the Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan has signalled the likelihood of a rise in Federal Funds rates after today’s Open Market Committee meeting.
On this side of the Atlantic, the Government has given up all pretence of modest economic recovery. “Britain is Booming,” announces the latest mailshot from Conservative Central Office. Ken Clarke insists this is a wonder-boom that will not be followed by bust later – he has found a miracle cure for the ups and downs of the economic cycle that has somehow escaped the notice of Mr Greenspan.The British economy almost certainly is in better shape than for a long time.
Yesterday’s balance of payments figures were much improved compared with the same stage of the last economic cycle, in the late 1980s. The pay-off for these genuine improvements is that interest rates should not need to rise as much as they would have in the past. But the fact that it ought to be easier to keep the economy on a steady course does not mean the Chancellor can get away without touching the brakes at all. Today’s expected interest rate move by the Fed, a classic “stitch-in-time” policy of the sort the Bank of England would love to follow, will highlight the risks the Government is taking with the British economy.Wallace digs in for long haul at CWCIn his former life Graham Wallace, the new chief exec at Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC), used to run Granada’s motorway service stations. He therefore knows a thing or two about squeezing the last drop out of a captive market. Now that Granada is facing competition again, having been forced to sell off Welcome Break, it is giving away Burger King Whopper Meals for 1p but that’s life in the fast-food lane.The challenge facing Mr Wallace at CWC, the great white hope of the cable telephony industry, is altogether different It does not possess a monopoly or anything like it. When its cable network is built out it will still only pass a quarter of the homes in the country, having spent a cool pounds 6.3bn.
He also contributed to a generous spread of other dictionaries, musical guides and periodicals in Italy and Great Britain, recently adding International Opera Collector and Tempo to his fora.But his reputation went around the globe, particularly for his work on the generazione dell’ottanta – the group of composers born around the 1880s, and including Respighi, Malipiero, Pizzetti, Ghedini and Casella: no matter where, if you were reading an article on the generazione dell’ottanta that wasn’t written by Waterhouse, the chances are that the author would have consulted him. John C G. Waterhouse was one of Britain’s most respected musicologists – though the label of “musicologist” was always one he resisted. The reason for that respect was straightforward: Waterhouse (the “C G.” distinguished him from his father, John F. Waterhouse, who wrote music criticism for the Birmingham Post) knew more about 20th-century Italian music than almost anybody else in the world.
His interest in Italy began early: after an education at Eton and Merton College, Oxford, he wrote his doctoral thesis (1966) on “The Emergence of Modern Italian Music, 1880-1940″, and he assiduously ploughed this furrow for the rest of his life.He was encouraged by the composer Luigi Dallapiccola to study the music of Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973), and his researches eventually emerged as La Musica di Gian Francesco Malipiero (Nuova Era, Rome and Turin, 1990), which he wrote straight into Italian.
This description provided “a valuable contribution to the solution of the problem” of landing mine-clearing “flail” tanks to clear underwater obstacles on D-day beaches in Normandy, and must have saved many a tank crew’s life. There can scarcely ever have been a more bizarre outcome of wide-ranging skills in bibliographical research than this.After retiring in 1961 Bertram Schofield moved with his wife, Edith, to Kidlington in Oxfordshire and lived there till the age of 101, on his own after her death in 1981, but sustained by a devoted home help. He is survived by a family of exceptionally wide-ranging talents, from nuclear physics and music to robotics, mathematics and oceanography.Bertram Schofield, palaeographer and musicologist: born Southport 13 June 1896; Assistant Keeper of Manuscripts, British Museum, 1922-47, Deputy Keeper 1947-56, Keeper 1956-61; CBE 1959; married 1928 Edith Thomas (died 1981; one son, two daughters); died Oxford 15 May 1998.. Though he was a tolerable shot, he could see to aim a rifle properly only out of his left eye, a thing particularly difficult to do with the old bolt-action short- magazine Lee Enfield rifle, and hence was sent to serve in Ireland, an experience he disliked.From 1919 to 1921 he continued his studies in Anglo-French legal and constitutional history at the Sorbonne, the Ecole des Chartes and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, which left him with an abiding love for France, and then returned to study in Cambridge, before joining the Department of Manuscripts in 1922.His greatest single achievement was during the Second World War when he was acting as liaison officer with Inter- Services Intelligence and found in the bookstacks of the Reading Room of the museum vol xxxv of the Bulletin de la Societe Prehistorique Francaise, 1938, which gave a “most detailed description of a clay patch on the beach at Luc-sur-Mer near Caen”, as noted by Chester Wil-mot in his The Struggle for Europe, 1952. A good relationship with Francis did not prevent Schofield standing up with vigour for the interests of the Department of Manuscripts, and there is a perhaps apocryphal tale of an occasion when he was said to have remonstrated forcibly and somewhat uncharacteristically with the director with the words “Don’t be a bloody fool, Frank.”!He did not have an entirely easy ride as keeper, and was saddened by the suicide of one of his colleagues and the divorce of two others, and though almost all his staff were easy, one or two, now dead, were not, and one of these indeed verged on the paranoiac. He went to Liverpool University from University School, Southport, secured a First in History and then became Charles Beard Fellow and later a University Fellow.In 1917 he joined the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry.
He was a wise delegator, and handed over the task of editing the Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, traditionally undertaken by the keeper, to his senior deputy keeper, who raised the standard of editing to an intimidatingly high level.Before ever he came to the museum, Schofield was marked down for success. He was responsible for acquiring the Tregian Anthology of Italian and for identifying the compiler as being that of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book.Yet he took no narrow view of what should be acquired, and was equally keen on adding manuscripts of such composers as Elgar, Holst and Vaughan Williams, as well as modern literary and historical MSS.On taking office in 1956, he had to mend a few fences, for his immediate predecessor, a genial and charming man once released from the cares of office, found it hard to cope with the responsibilities of being keeper and had allowed this to affect his relationships with his colleagues in the department and elsewhere in the museum.No doubt it helped that Schofield, though some years older, had been at Liverpool University and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, not long before the then Keeper of Printed Books and subsequent director of the museum, Sir Frank Francis, in the days when the museum still had its own directors. He was a quiet but highly effective manager, and could correct a colleague without giving the faintest offence.
Though he held office as keeper only for six years – recalled by one of his staff as the happiest six years of his service in the museum – the acquisitions Schofield made included medieval manuscripts from Holkham and illuminated manuscripts from the Dyson Perrins collection. These were by no means the only examples of his skill in acquiring desirable items, especially in the field of music MSS, at a time when the funds available for acquisitions were far smaller than they later became.
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