Alistair Cooke, the quintessentially urbane host of television ‘ s ” Omnibus ” and ” Masterpiece Theatre ” and interpreter of U.S. culture for decades on British radio ‘ s ” Letter from America, ” ...

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 ...

A WILLIAM MARCH OMNIBUS, with an Introduction by Alistair Cooke (397 pp.)—Rinehart ($4). Company K was a sardonic minor masterpiece of World War I—a painful punishment drill in the doorless barracks ...

Alistair Cooke, the ultra-civilized, silver-haired British broadcaster best known to American audiences as the host of "Masterpiece Theatre," died Tuesday at his home in New York. He had heart disease ...

Alistair Cooke, retired host of Omnibus and Masterpiece Theatre, will lecture on "A Short History of American Humor: From Mark Twain to Calvin Trillin," on April 28. Cooke was chief American ...

This obituary was updated at 12:56 p.m. Alistair Cooke, the broadcaster who epitomized highbrow television as the original host of “Masterpiece Theatre” and whose “Letter From America” was a radio ...