Word: alistair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporter to its staff. The Associated Press joined the parade by sending its 1,750 members an 1,800-word, Detroit-datelined feature, "The Negro in the North." Last week, under a headline, As OTHERS SEE Us, the Chicago Sun-Times began reprinting a Manchester Guardian series by Correspondent Alistair Cooke on U.S. racial problems, reporting on "Northern complacency" about discriminatory practices in states such as Illinois, Indiana and Ohio...
...yesterday's Omnibus survey of university education and "Harvard in particular," announcer Alistair Cooke thanked President Pusey for allowing Harvard to be turned "upside down" for the sake of the television production. The apology was in order--what covered the screen for ninety minutes was not only an inverted picture of Harvard, but a small and thus distorted view. The camera never focussed on a lecture, or classroom, and the few students and professors who did manage to appear were either outnumbered by deans and politicians or drowned out by announcers and alumni...
...paper, we're in wonderful shape now as far as time is concerned," she said. "But by Sunday we might be ten minutes over. There's no way of telling about the timing. Alistair (Alistair Cooke, the show's regular emcee who arrived in town Thursday night to speak to the Nieman Fellows) has done the show long enough so that he knows exactly what a minute is. But the other people on the show won't. That's why we need to rehearse so much...
Mary explained the role of writer Lewis. "He wrote the whole thing through, but only to give the individuals who are going to be on the show some idea of what to say. Each person who speaks will use his own words. Alistair usually writes all of his own material, too, but on a show like this he'll only re-write what Andy has already prepared...
...drill in the doorless barracks of total recall. Its author, William March, died two years ago at 60. almost unregarded-before his Bad Seed, a tale designed to prove that even children may have murder in their hearts, became a bestseller and a Broadway hit. Now TV's Alistair Cooke, U.S. correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, with a governess' concern to see that U.S. cultural toddlers are cozily wrapped, undertakes the task of explaining March to American readers. Cooke makes a sound observation: March "is wholly free from the characteristics of contemporary American fiction that have come...