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  • Also, there’s a resemblance to Alistair Cooke, which is NOT a look to be shooting for.

    Boris Johnson, the artsy-fartsy poster « raincoaster 2006

  • John James didn't realize he had left more than $100,000 of jewelry and other valuables in the back seat of a taxi until he reached for his bag to show off the treasured photographs he'd taken with a few of his late friends: the actress Sylvia Sidney, writer Dominick Dunne and broadcaster Alistair Cooke.

    Hello, I Left $100,000 In the Back of My Cab Andrew Grossman 2011

  • In the week a new, bold young Masters champion has been anointed I am reminded of a piece I never tire of quoting by Alistair Cooke in these very pages half a century ago, about another Bobby, another courtly nonpareil, Bobby Jones, who inspired the very foundation of the Masters at Augusta in 1934.

    My dream job as Bobby Moore's minder for a fortnight | Frank Keating 2011

  • Hosted by Alistair Cooke and a training ground for Don Hewitt of 60 Minutes, this show encompassed everything from excerpts from operas and musicals to adaptations of short stories and documentaries.

    Michael Giltz: DVDs: The Best High School Movies of All Time Michael Giltz 2011

  • There is, to pluck one C, his lovely reminiscence of Alistair Cooke, who had, in his time as an undergraduate, founded the first co-ed theatrical society in Cambridge and who, partly at Mr. Fry's request, returned on the society's 50th anniversary.

    True Tales of a Happy Hypocrite Alexandra Mullen 2012

  • He was thus in charge of diplomatic, White House and Congressional reporting there, with Alistair Cooke roaming the rest of the US, from which Scott was more or less excluded.

    Richard Scott obituary 2011

  • From the era of James Cameron and Alistair Cooke to the present day, I have admired the quality of the Guardian's writers over the decades.

    Good to Meet You: Robert Jones 2011

  • Hosted by Alistair Cooke, it offered viewers glimpses of everything from Orson Welles's "King Lear" to Mike Nichols and Elaine May, but it is best remembered by historians of American music for having introduced Leonard Bernstein to TV audiences.

    Turn On, Tune In, Get Serious Terry Teachout 2011

  • The voters targeted by both of the ads above are so low information they make Sarah Palin look like Alistair Cooke.

    Athens Native Sons Against Bringing Saxby Back 2010

  • "Not like that Alistair Cooke – he practises the head-down technique, doesn't look at anyone and gets through 1,000 an hour."

    Diary 2010

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