Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke : On Sport and Other Amusements.
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Fun & Games with Alistair Cooke : On Sport and Other Amusements.
Yazar:
Cooke, Alistair.
ISBN:
9781497697942
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1 online resource (312 pages)
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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- To the Reader -- Part One: Days in the Sun (mostly) -- 1 Fun & Games at Blackpool -- 2 A Lesson for Yale -- 3 An Epic of Courage -- 4 Sugar Ray's Downfall -- 5 Short History of Baseball -- 6 Revised (Soviet) History of Baseball -- 7 The Sit-Down Fight -- 8 Return of the Native -- 9 The Road to Churchill Downs -- 10 Breton Rules the Waves -- 11 Player's Puritan Victory -- 12 A Mountain Comes to Muhammad -- 13 Come-Uppance for the 'Onliest Champion' -- 14 History of the Scottish Torture -- 15 The Missing Aristotle Papers on Golf -- 16 The Heat on for Arnie & Co. -- 17 Pottermanship -- 18 Walter Hagen 1892-1969 -- 19 Make Way for the Senior Golfer -- 20 Nicklaus: Twenty-Two Years at Hard Labour -- 21 Workers, Arise! Shout 'Fore!' -- 22 Snow, Cholera, Lions and Other Distractions -- 23 Movers and Shakers of the Earth -- 24 The Money Game -- 25 Pat Ward-Thomas -- 26 No One Like Henry -- 27 The Written Record -- 28 The Making of the Masters -- 29 The Inauguration of President Grant -- 30 Marching Orders -- 31 My Life with Gabriela Sabatini -- 32 Golf: The American Conquest -- Part Two: Night People -- 1 Oasis in Baltimore -- 2 Recollections of a Pudding Head -- 3 Garbo -- 4 'My Fair Lady' -- 5 The Legend of Gary Cooper -- 6 Shakespeare in Loafers -- 7 The Coronation of Miss Oklahoma -- 8 Star Quality -- 9 The Duke -- 10 Two for the Road -- 11 The Life, in the Music, of George Gershwin -- 12 Chaplin -- 13 Jazz, San Francisco, and Jimmy Price -- 14 Screen Acting: 'Eyes Only' -- 15 'Upstairs, Downstairs' -- 16 Genius as an Urchin -- 17 An Icon at Fifty -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Copyright Page.
Özet:
From Duke Ellington to Churchill Downs, championship golf to Greta Garbo, Alistair Cooke reports on the popular sports and entertainments he loved the most This delightful anthology, drawn from Alistair Cooke's Letter from America BBC broadcasts as well as his reporting for the Guardian, showcases the legendary journalist's wide range of sporting pleasures, which include golf, tennis, baseball, and horse racing, and records memorable fun he had with favorite movies, theater productions, and jazz performances. Included here are perceptive portraits of sports personalities such as Gabriela Sabatini, Arnold Palmer, and Sugar Ray Robinson, whom Cooke regarded as the best fighter in the history of boxing. "A Mountain Comes to Muhammad" captures Muhammad Ali in victory; "Come-Uppance for the 'Onliest Champion' " portrays him in defeat. A "Revised (Soviet) History of Baseball" humorously details Russian misconceptions about America's pastime, a.k.a. beizbol. In "The Road to Churchill Downs," Cooke captures the sights and sounds of Kentucky's crown jewel and delights in the joy that his young daughter, Susan, who appears with her father on the cover of this edition, takes in the sport of kings. Sharing the spotlight are celebrities of the Hollywood variety, including Gary Cooper, John Wayne, Groucho Marx, and Charlie Chaplin. Filled with Cooke's infectious enthusiasm for fun and games of wide variety, the lighter side of the legendary journalist's output will be enjoyed by devotees of popular culture.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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