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...nuisance,' Britain's Guardian wrote of its U.S. correspondent, Alistair Cooke. 'He telephones his copy at the last moment. He says that he will be in Chicago and turns up in Los Angeles ... If all his colleagues were like him, production of this paper would cease.' But, the Guardian conceded, 'we think he's worth it.' Most of Alistair Cooke's readers and listeners seem to agree. A nuisance he is to conventional thought, both in his column for the Guardian and in his Sunday evening broadcast from New York for the BBC ... Since his BBC broadcasts are beamed...
...Cooke's Tour Columnist and BBC commentator Alistair Cooke, who died in March [MILESTONES, April 12], dazzled radio listeners as an analyzer of American life for almost 60 years. When he celebrated his 1,000th broadcast for the British network 36 years ago, we described his journalistic habits [April...
...most Americans, ALISTAIR COOKE was the baronial M.C. of Masterpiece Theatre--a genial gent so famous that he was gently parodied as Alistair Cookie on Sesame Street and Alistair Beagle in Peanuts. But his role as a TV host was a sideline for the British journalist who knew everyone and remembered everything. As a young Cambridge grad in the U.S., he became instant pals with Charlie Chaplin and H.L. Mencken. He got his first glimpse of Franklin Roosevelt as the paraplegic President was hauled from his car, and he happened to be near Robert Kennedy the night of his assassination...
...most Americans, ALISTAIR COOKE was the baronial M.C. of Masterpiece Theatre?a genial gent so famous that he was gently parodied as Alistair Cookie on Sesame Street and Alistair Beagle in Peanuts. But his role as a TV host was a sideline for the British journalist who knew everyone and remembered everything. As a young Cambridge grad in the U.S., he became instant pals with Charlie Chaplin and H.L. Mencken. He got his first glimpse of Franklin Roosevelt as the paraplegic President was hauled from his car, and he happened to be near Robert Kennedy the night of his assassination...
...RETIRED. ALISTAIR COOKE, 95, after 58 years of recording his Letter from America show for BBC radio; in New York City. Cooke was known to American audiences as the host of the Masterpiece Theater TV series...