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...show was created by Robert ?Shad? Northshield, a CBS producer who brought Kuralt into the studio on West 57th Street. The reporter had been ?on the road? for a dozen years, filing stories on ?those gentler subjects? (rural eccentrics, unicyclists, small-town sages, long-time friends, a high-school team with a record number of consecutive losses). What Joseph Mitchell achieved in his New Yorker profiles of Bowery ticket-takers, Staten Island oystermen and Mohawk skyscraper steelworkers, Kuralt approached, more fondly, in his reportorial visits...
...Hallmark poet and a zeal to bring to broadcast life an America most people didn?t know (or care) still existed. As TV zoomed into the electronic age, Kuralt stayed unplugged, logging 50,000 miles a year in his mobile home-office. TIME called his reports for the CBS Evening News ?two-minute cease fires? from urban riots, the Vietnam War and the Watergate brouhaha...
...step and muttered, ?Humiliated by a 104-year-old man.? The show itself moved at Kuralt?s pace and with his interests, searching out the underappreciated overachievers, the local good-deed-doers. On other news-and-entertainment shows, an editor might dump a story on a worthy anonymity; ?CBS SM? would say that attention must be paid. At the end of his last show, in 1994, Kuralt recited this childlike quatrain: ??Remember, please, when I am gone, / ?Twas aspiration led me on. / Tiddly-widdly, toodle-oo, / All I want is to stay with you.? But here I go.? He died...
...Another reason to cherish ?CBS SM?: when Kuralt retired, he was succeeded by a man a year older than he. Osgood was New York City born, bred, schooled (Fordham) and employed (as the mellifluous morning man on WCBS news radio). Yet his bow tie, wry good nature and weakness for writing up a story in helium-light verse marked him as a Kuralt cousin. He joined the CBS network in 1971 and filled a daily 90-sec. slot called ?The Osgood File? (it?s run on 350 stations) as well as serving, for five years, as a host...
...Here?s how a typical ?CBS SM? runs...