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...into older folks' connection with their alma mater, a few schools have gone so far as to offer burial plots on campus. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for example, is the final resting place of alum Charles Kuralt, the former CBS newsman. But maybe that's taking things a step too far--for now, anyway. Boomers are only turning 60. They're not thinking about dying. They're thinking about reliving what many regard as the best years of their life. Who knows? Maybe that's what the years ahead will turn...
...Hefty and balding, looking nothing like the generically adorable Kens and Barbies of today?s news shows, Kuralt was a throwback to such early TV hosts and humorists as Dave Garroway, Will Shriner, Jimmy Dean and the young monologist Andy Griffith - but with a touch of the 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...
...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...
...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...
...Osgood is Kuralt as host, Bill Geist, who usually gets the show?s last long slot, is the vagabond Kuralt, with a shorter fuse. A former columnist for the Times, Geist suggests a mix of Kuralt, Joe Mitchell and the ?Daily Show? traveling circus. A copy of the Jack Barth-Ken Smith classic ?Roadside America? in his back pocket, he visits the Museum of Towing, enters a BGA (Bad Golfers Association) tournament, investigates the Mothman legend in West Virginia, crashes the Exotic World Burlesque Museum & Striptease Hall of Fame, attends the Fruitcake demolition derby (that piece has to be retired...