Word: alistaire
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...Even though European papers gave the campaign more space than ever, much of the reporting, with the notable exception of the London Telegraph, was slanted by newsmen blinded by their affection for Stevenson and their misunderstanding of America. One of the first to go overboard was Manchester Guardian Correspondent Alistair Cooke, who two months ago predicted a Stevenson victory. But in an eleventh-hour conversion, Cooke took another look at Stevenson's "reach for greatness," as compared to Ike's "much more 'normal' campaign," and wrote: "It now appears most likely that the people will pass...
...Alistair Cooke (Sun. 9:45 p.m., ABC). Literate and witty comment by an Anglo-American newsman...
...Others See Us (Sun. 9:45 p.m., ABC). Views on the U.S. by the BBC's and the Manchester Guardian's correspondent Alistair Cooke...
...foreign newsmen, the convention was often so confusing that, as London Observer Correspondent Alistair Buchan half-jokingly said, "I just treat it as a spectacle and then run off and see 'Scotty' Reston of the New York Times.'''' Hearst papers, which had been editorially neutral between Taft and Ike, got overexcited about MacArthur's chances as a "compromise candidate." Publisher William R. Hearst Jr. himself gave credence to "an excellent authority" that Taft was getting ready to put his weight behind MacArthur. Even on the final day of the convention, when most newsmen...
...John Cogley, the Commonweal: "Moral relativism, pragmatism, raw secularism -all the timid forebears of the giant Marxism-stood before the bar with Hiss. It was not only a generation that was on trial, as Mr. Alistair Cooke put it; it was also the vision of good without...