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...show was old at birth, when Charles Kuralt, the first host, began the inaugural program by declaring, ?Here starts something new... a Sunday newspaper that comes in a tube.? Something new for television, not for newspapers and magazines. ?CBS SM? has its closest equivalent, and direct inspiration in the Sunday New York Times - specifically in its magazine and its Arts and Leisure section, with essayish reports on social trends and features on and criticism of music, film and art. But the Times, like most journalistic enterprises these days, is avid to get younger; ?CBS SM? is content to be late...
...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...
...Nightly News anchor's chair in 2004, he will have been with the peacock network for 36 years. In 1980, three years before he took over as anchor of the evening news show, Brokaw was fighting a morning-show ratings war as host of Today, beating CBS's Charles Kuralt and running neck and neck with ABC's David Hartman...
...TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE: "Charles and Me," a cheesy new book by Pat Shannon (Four Courts; 5/15) is a monument to indiscretion. The book chronicles Shannon's "very private and intimate relationship of 30 years" with the late, married CBS news correspondent Charles Kuralt. Who asked...
...unnewsworthy nature, Webster Groves has been the subject of inordinate national attention over the years--happily so in 1996, when President Clinton came to honor the school's antidrug efforts, less happily in 1965, when a CBS News team, led by producer Arthur Barron and renowned correspondent Charles Kuralt, arrived to film Sixteen in Webster Groves, a one-hour documentary about the town and its high school-age adolescents...