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Alistair Cooke: broadcaster, author, and the ultimate Anglo-American.(Obituary)(Obituary)
ALISTAIR COOKE'S timing has always been superb. His retirement on March 2, only four weeks before his death on March 30, gave him the opportunity to read what were, in effect, his obituaries.
Cooke enjoyed a unique place in the English-speaking world. In Britain he is remembered as the Guardian's chief American correspondent from 1947 until 1971. In the United States he is recognised as a television presenter of a history of America and later two decades of classic British costume drama. The rest of the world knew him as the voice of Letter from America, his thirteen-minute weekly radio commentary on the United States, broadcast to fifty countries around the ...
- USA. New York. New York City. Alistair Cooke, TV and radio presenter. 1955....
- Picture from: Magnum Photos Eve Arnold January 1, 1955 700+ words
...Arnold Magnum Photos 01-01-1955 USA. New York. New York City. Alistair Cooke, TV and radio presenter. 1955. Keywords...Famous people Famous person USA. New York. New York City. Alistair Cooke, TV and radio presenter. 1955. USA...
- SIGNING OFF\ AFTER 58 YEARS, ALISTAIR COOKE HAS SENT HIS LAST 'LETTER'.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) March 19, 2004 700+ words
Alistair Cooke, whose weekly...origins in 1997 in New York: "The head man...been his 15th floor New York apartment with its...the reservoir in New York's Central Park...television, he hosted "Alistair Cooke's America...
- Alistair Cooke: The Biography.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Quadrant Stove, R.J. October 1, 2000 700+ words
Alistair Cooke: The Biography, by...Gettysburg Address." Alistair Cooke's own merits are obviously...Simpson. On a train from New York, he found himself seated...eluded the USA. (Alistair Cooke's Letter from Luxembourg...
- Alistair Cooke.(Alistair Cooke, smoother of transatlantic tensions)(Obituary)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) April 3, 2004 700+ words
Alistair Cooke, smoother of transatlantic tensions...FOR as long as anyone can remember, Alistair Cooke was the perfect embodiment of the special...first, he told weary Britons that even New York was a war casualty, driven to burning...
- Alistair Cooke 'bodysnatchers' appearing in court.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) February 23, 2006 700+ words
...the bones of BBC broadcaster Alistair Cooke from his corpse and sold them...was reported yesterday. The New York Post said former dentist Michael...corpses from funeral parlours in New York City, New Jersey and Pennsylvania...Mastromarino's company, New York-based ...
- After 2,869 broadcasts, 58 years, and 11 Presidents, Alistair Cooke, 95, says...
- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) March 3, 2004 700+ words
...of the nation's fabric as Alistair Cooke. Of course, we all knew...overlooking Central Park in New York - a missive whose brevity...and I last visited him in New York in November 2002, and found...built round his impressions of New York after a trip to Britain...
- FUNERAL GANG STEAL ALISTAIR COOKE'S BONES; Parts sold in medical scam.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) December 23, 2005 700+ words
...PARRY, US Correspondent, in New York VETERAN broadcaster Alistair Cooke's bones were stolen hours...than 50 years, died at his New York home last year. Now the Brooklyn...Police this week raided the New York Mortuary in Brooklyn where...
- Alistair Cooke's bones 'stolen for transplant'.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) December 22, 2005 700+ words
...Byline: PAUL SIMS BROADCASTER Alistair Cooke's bones were allegedly stolen...it has been reported. The New York Daily News claims that the...spread to his bones at his New York in March last year. The scandal...thousands of records kept by the New York Mortuary on ...
