Alistair Cooke, a broadcasting legend on both shores of the Atlantic, died of heart failure yesterday in New York City. Cooke reported his radio program "Letter from America" each week for 58 years on ...

Alistair Cooke, whose weekly "Letter from America" was a radio fixture in Britain for 58 years, has died at the age of 95, the British Broadcasting Corp. announced Tuesday. Cooke died at his home in ...

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Alistair Cooke was known to millions as the graceful, amazingly well-read host of Masterpiece Theatre for 22 years. But this very public side of a very outgoing man was just the tip of the iceberg to ...

To most Americans, ALISTAIR COOKE was the baronial M.C. of Masterpiece Theatre–a genial gent so famous that he was gently parodied as Alistair Cookie on Sesame Street and Alistair Beagle in Peanuts.

When I heard of Alistair Cooke's death this past Tuesday, I scoured the shelves for information about this British student of all things American. In the process I came upon the book "TV Themes: Past ...

A dentist was sentenced Friday to 18 to 54 years in a New York prison for orchestrating a scheme to sell human tissue and body parts from funeral homes. The History of the Decline and Fall of the ...

LONDON (AP) _ Alistair Cooke, the broadcaster who epitomized highbrow television as host of ``Masterpiece Theatre'' and whose ``Letter from America'' was a radio fixture in Britain for 58 years, has ...

LONDON -- Alistair Cooke, the broadcaster who epitomized highbrow television as host of "Masterpiece Theatre" and whose "Letter from America" was a radio fixture in Britain for 58 years, has died, the ...

LONDON — Legendary British broadcaster Alistair Cooke, best known for his long-running radio series “Letter From America,” has died at the age of 95. A spokesman for the BBC said Tuesday that Cooke ...