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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. He discards the agreed subject to write about something which has taken his fancy. If all his colleagues were like him, production of this paper would cease." But, the Guardian con ceded, "we think he's worth...
...When Alistair MacLean temporarily retired from writing three years ago, he settled down to running a couple of restaurant-bars in the south of England. That is probably just what the heroes of MacLean's The Guns of Navarone and H.M.S. Ulysses would have done. They were tightlipped, quietly efficient men who were repelled by heroics, and obviously wanted nothing more than peace and quiet after their hazardous call to duty ended. In this book, however, MacLean has smashed the mold. Secret Agent Philip Calvert, his new hero, must have got his basic training by watching James Bond movies...
WHEN EIGHT BELLS TOLL by Alistair MacLean. 288 pages. Doubleday...
...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...