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Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.
Alistair Cooke
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Alistair Cooke
Age: 95 †
Born: 1908
Born: November 20
Died: 2004
Died: March 30
Journalist
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Television Presenter
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Salford
Greater Manchester
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Nations
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Around
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Authors
Different
Stations
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Nation
Starlets
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