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...Beginning on January 28, 1979, the forthrightly folksy Kuralt carved a 90-min. cease fire each Sunday morning. His first story was on a fellow who played ?Dream? on a saw. Jogging with a centarian in better shape than he was, the hefty Kuralt fell out of 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Sunday Morning Going Strong | 2/13/2004 | See Source »

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