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Remember when Harvard had more trouble on the road than Charles Kuralt...
Bravo to Charles Kuralt and his loving look at us Americans in his television series On the Road [PRESS, April 2]. However, I was concerned when I learned that Kuralt wants to do a show about dogs riding in the back of pickup trucks. If he loves dogs, Kuralt will do a story on why these animals should not sit there. Riding in the wind is devastating to those soft, lovely eyes. Ask a veterinarian...
...Road has logged more than a million miles, according to the network, and has worn out seven mobile homes. "Once, in Wyoming," Kuralt recalls, "everything broke down at once, and Izzy was reduced to tears." Although! Kuralt and his crew are married, there is still a sort of bachelor's liberty to it all, and the current vehicle, an FMC, looks like the habitat of tomcats. The seat cushions are misshapen and filthy, the refrigerator contains nothing but beer and soda, the larder has only peanut butter and crackers, but coffee is perpetually on the boil. Kuralt favors...
...success of On the Road very nearly spoiled it. Kuralt became a star CBS property, and he was pulled off the road time and again: at various times, he has anchored the network's morning, evening and Sunday shows. He will anchor as well as report on The American Parade, and some stories -for example, an interview with New York Governor Mario Cuomo - will even edge him back into hard news...
...Still, Kuralt remains committed to "news that no one else is reporting." His favorite story, he says unhesitatingly, was the 50th wedding anniversary reunion of a rural Mississippi family. "They had seven children, and when the first one was old enough to go to college, they hitched up the wagon to a mule and rode to town to borrow $5 for bus fare, because that was all they could give. Every one of them went on to some kind of profession. As we stood in that room and watched them, we were crying and they were crying...