Word: alistair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hardly runs in the family," considering that his famous grandfather gave the BBC some of its finest hours in World War II. Leaving as little as possible to Mendelian chance, young Churchill started off his daily lunchtime news-and-interviews half hour by asking his first guest, Veteran Pundit Alistair Cooke, "What tips can you give me?" "If you try to be somebody else," cautioned Cooke, "you're lost." So the fledgling commentator skipped politics next day, and interviewed Humorist Malcolm Muggeridge on the role of sex in American salesmanship...
...NOBEL PRIZE AWARDS 1964 (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A documentary special, hosted by Alistair Cooke, with behind-the-scenes deliberations and discussions by the judges, which were recorded on camera for the first time, and the presentations of the 1964 prizes...
...fathers are simply too unsure of themselves to write really rattling letters to any son past the age of twelve. Significantly, the best letters toward the end of the book are the ones written to small children, including the notes from Kenneth Grahame to his four-year-old son Alistair that were the genesis of The Wind in the Willows. "My Darling Mouse-Have you heard about the toad? He has vanished and everyone is looking for him, including the police. I fear he is a bad low animal...
...ALISTAIR HORNE...
Verdun was the most destructive and in many ways the most crucial battle of World War I, a war that, as its 50th anniversary nears, is just now beginning to generate in Europe the same post-mortem re-examinations that the U.S. Civil War centennial recently unleashed here. Author Alistair Horne, an ex-Guards officer and British intelligence expert, has stitched together scores of eyewitness accounts by generals and common soldiers to make vivid sense of the battle's indescribable confusion...