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Created by dipity on Nov 23, 2008
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Alistair Cooke looks into what the right to bear arms is really about, with his usual incisive accuracy.
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...he liked; that gig lasted for 58 years. What he didn't like was his drab name, Albert, so he changed it to Alistair. Alistair Cooke. Americans of a certain age remember Cooke as the host of Masterpiece Theater from its inception in 1970 till 1992, and the...
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...he liked; that gig lasted for 58 years. What he didn't like was his drab name, Albert, so he changed it to Alistair. Alistair Cooke. Americans of a certain age remember Cooke as the host of Masterpiece Theater from its inception in 1970 till 1992, and the...
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Time
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...wasn't supposed to be an Obit. I came to work early this morning hoping to finish a tribute to Alistair Cooke and his BBC series "Letter from America." The weekly chat began March 31, 1946, 58 years ago tomorrow, and continued for 2,869 episodes until last...
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...Byrne Cooke's bemused boyhood memory of Cooke filming his new train set without including a single shot of John himself. Alistair Cooke devoured American culture and, inevitably, became a U.S. citizen after essentially inventing a career for himself by offering...
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San Francisco Chronicle
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...Byrne Cooke's bemused boyhood memory of Cooke filming his new train set without including a single shot of John himself. Alistair Cooke devoured American culture and, inevitably, became a U.S. citizen after essentially inventing a career for himself by offering...
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San Francisco Chronicle
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...have been the hundredth anniversary of Alistair Cooke's birth. For me, as for most Americans over the age of 25, the name Alistair Cooke conjures a familiar image: a grey-haired Englishman, accoutred with smoking jacket, cravat, and pipe, sitting in a wing...
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The Independent
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...have been the hundredth anniversary of Alistair Cooke's birth. For me, as for most Americans over the age of 25, the name Alistair Cooke conjures a familiar image: a grey-haired Englishman, accoutred with smoking jacket, cravat, and pipe, sitting in a wing...
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The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/sarah-churchwell-what-made-alistair-cooke-great-1028130.html
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...many years ago, I found myself in the BBC's old New York offices when Alistair Cooke was in to record his weekly Letter from America. The offices themselves were still in the Rockefeller Centre – one of New York's most elegant skyscrapers – and they commanded...
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The Independent
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...Cooke didn't live to celebrate his centenary. But today, on his 100th birthday, he's given the rest of us the best possible present. The Telegraph reports that all 2869 of his Letter from America scripts are heading into an online archive hosted by the University...
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Times Online
http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2008/11/alistair-cooke.html
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