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...GUNS OF NAVARONE (320 pp.)-Alistair MacLean-Doubleday...
Early in World War II a character called Alistair Digby-Vane-Trumpington (in Evelyn Waugh's Put Out More Flags) asked his wife if she would mind if he joined the Commandos: "They have special knives and Tommy guns and knuckle-dusters; they wear rope-soled shoes...
Nevertheless, the frequent brilliance of its specialists, e.g., U.S. Correspondent Alistair Cooke, and the wide latitude given to staffers under the late, great Editor C. P. Scott's dictum "Comment is free, facts are sacred," help to make the Guardian the British newsman's newspaper...
Conversation (Thurs. 8:30 pm., NBC). "How People Talk," discussed by Clifton Fadiman, Alistair Cooke, Allen Funt...
...About a year ago, two specialists on Anglo-American relations were gloomily talking over drinks in a London pub. The problem, they agreed, was to show America in the even light of everyday. "What we want," said Bradley Connors, public-relations counselor of the U.S. embassy, "is something like Alistair Cooke. Something that gets the flavor of America on TV as Cooke does on radio." Leonard Miall, a BBC-TV executive and onetime BBC correspondent in the U.S., concurred. Over the next round, Report from America was conceived...