Yes, due to heart trouble
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,115583,00.html

"tommyknocker" wrote in message
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N8KDV wrote:

Alistair Cooke has passed away at age 95.

Didn't he just retire from doing "Letter From America"?

TERRIBLE NEWS !

Joe wrote:

Yes, due to heart trouble
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,115583,00.html

One of the many who retire and immediately keel over dead. For too many
people their job is their life, and they literally can't live without
it. See also Charles Schulz. Both great men but both suffering from the
same human frailty.


"tommyknocker" wrote in message
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N8KDV wrote:

Alistair Cooke has passed away at age 95.

Didn't he just retire from doing "Letter From America"?

"tommyknocker" wrote in message
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Joe wrote:

Yes, due to heart trouble
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,115583,00.html

One of the many who retire and immediately keel over dead. For too many
people their job is their life, and they literally can't live without
it. See also Charles Schulz. Both great men but both suffering from the
same human frailty.

Blimey! He *was* 95 you know -he wouldn't have lived much longer had he
kept up his letter anyway - he probably knew this. Poor soul only had 3
weeks of retirement.
RIP Sir :-)

--
Simon Mason
Anlaby
East Yorkshire.
53°44'N 0°26'W
http://www.simonmason.karoo.net

Here's a pretty nice article about him:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37700-2004Mar30.html