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...world, considered him a spirited, spirit-lifting member of their families. His Letters broadcasts often began with remarks about the view from his Fifth Avenue window, and letters from many countries, which bore the address "Alistair Cooke, Overlooking Central Park," ended up in his mail box. The man who knew everybody had the knack of making millions of strangers feel they knew him. That's the talent of a politician more than a journalist. But as The Unseen Alistair Cooke reveals, the man was no rabble-rouser. He was a rabble-raiser. People on the other...
...viewers of the first cathode age knew Cooke as the front man for Omnibus, which ran on Sunday afternoons on CBS, then ABC, then NBC, from 1952 to 1961. This 90 min. melange of the arts highlighted the lions of the day in music (Leonard Bernstein was a frequent guest), dance (Gene Kelly demonstrated how baseball was like ballet) and short dramatic pieces (like William Inge's "Glory in the Flower," with Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy and the 22-year-old James Dean). The ringmaster was Cooke, who easily convinced early TV viewers that culture could be enlightening, challenging...
...Cornell last Saturday in a nail-biter, in which the Crimson eventually was able to overcome its competitors and claw its way to a 158-142 win. “It was just a scrappy meet,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “The guys knew that whether they were getting first place or fifth place, every point was going to be important.” On Saturday, though, even if Diekema might have been a bit exhausted from the meet with Cornell, his speed in the water did not show it. Diekema individually...
...unable to break through in the first 45 minutes with the wind at its back. Harvard managed five shots, but only junior Brian Grimm’s effort forced UMass’ All-American senior goalkeeper Zack Simmons into a save.After switching sides at halftime, the Crimson players knew that they would have to dig deep and fight the conditions for the remainder of regulation.“They were better prepared for the conditions,” Clark said of UMass. “They had a couple tournament games last year just like this, so they had played...
...swing the momentum its way. “I guess for a few minutes we let down our guard and they got two quick goals,” Killorn said. “That was kind of a downer, but then we scored in the second period, so we knew we could build back up. We were happy we could come back and persevere.”Harvard found the back of the net for the first time at 4:08 in the second period. Moriarty won a faceoff in the Colgate zone and passed the puck back...