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When Americans criticize the British press, Fleet Streeters often angrily view it as some kind of special American "prejudice." But last week the British press was keelhauled by one of its own members: the Manchester Guardian's U.S correspondent, Alistair Cooke. Delivering a Joseph Medill Patterson journalism lecture at Fordham University, Cooke pointed out that the British press has deteriorated a great deal since the late 19th century, when newspapers tried to be "a guide to the good life...
...believe that the U.S. is dominated by Senators Joe McCarthy and Pat McCarran, and that it is a slick, grossly materialistic country populated by bathing beauties, crooners, gangsters and political strong-arm men. Americans have a stereotype of Britain too, says the Manchester Guardian's U.S. Correspondent Alistair Cooke, but it is usually a flattering picture of "Shakespeare, dignified gentlemen, and so on," while Britons, from their press, often think the U S is made up of "jukeboxes, gangsters and glistening bathing beauties." A false image is being projected," wrote London Sunday Observer Correspondent Alastair Buchan, "of an America...
...program's unusual films such as the Danish Palle Alone, which told of a small boy who dreams he is the only person left on earth and ecstatically drives streetcars and fire engines through the empty streets of Copenhagen. In the Manchester Guardian's Correspondent Alistair Cooke, Omnibus found an agreeable new TV personality to tie these diverse items together...
Omnibus (Sun. 4:30 p.m., CBS). The Ford Foundation's new 90-minute experimental show with Helen Hayes in William Saroyan's The Christmas Tie, a Lincoln drama produced by Richard de Rochemont. Moderator: Alistair Cooke...
Omnibus (Sundays, 4:30 p.m., CBS-TV) dedicates an hour and a half to "exceedingly various" experiences in the arts and skills. The show is aimed, says Spokesman Alistair Cooke, at middlebrow audiences. What gives the program its theoretical latitude is the fact that it was designed (and is supported) by the Ford Foundation, whose object is not money but an attempt to exploit new TV horizons. The first show of the series set the pace for the future: two original plays (The Badmen, by William Saroyan, and The Trial of Anne Boleyn, by Maxwell Anderson); excerpts from The Mikado...