Requiem for The Guy Who Gave The British Accent To Public Television

"It will be a weekly personal letter to a Briton by a fireside, I shall try to give a running commentary on topical aspects of American life, some of the intimate background to Washington policy, some profiles of important Americans. The stress will tend always to be on the springs of American life, whose bubbles are the headlines, rather than on the headlines themselves." -- Alistair Cooke, introducing the BBC Radio program Letter From America in 1946. He died today at 95.