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Radio 4,22 Apr 1988,15 mins

Stanton Delaplane (1907-1988)

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

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A tribute to the travel writer and Pulitzer prize-winning columnist renowned for his scoop on the 'ding dong daddy of the D-car line' about a bigamist cable car conductor.

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