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...guess I'll have to buy another suit." That was how CBS Correspondent Charles Kuralt greeted the news last week that several years on the back roads of America were finally coming to an end. In the network-news world of tailored suits and perfect teeth, Kuralt, 46, has long been an anomaly. Rumpled, round and slightly balding, Kuralt looks less like an anchorman than your average TV repairman. Earlier this year, when Dan Rather, 48, emerged from the jostling pack of contenders to win Walter Cronkite's job as father figure to the TV generation, Kuralt...
...newsmagazine, and hi a thrice-weekly column syndicated to more than 100 newspapers. Rooney, 60, covers the commonplace, leaving wars and statecraft to more conventional colleagues. "Andy is our Russell Baker, our Art Buchwald," says Don Hewitt, executive producer of 60 Minutes. "He is a cross between Charles Kuralt and H.L. Mencken...
...news each morning and another hour at night, and sets his alarm clock each week to catch his favorite show, CBS's Sunday Morning, "perhaps the most imaginative and creative news experiment going on in journalism." Smith got up extra early one recent Sunday to see Charles Kuralt and colleagues put the program together at a CBS studio in Manhattan...
...best, Real Life graphically illustrates the absurdity of television's reality mongers, from the cinema verite specialists at PBS to Charles Kuralt...
...large degree they were successful, but there were still some star-struck writers in attendance. A reporter for the Santa Ana Register, for example, asked CBS Correspondent Charles Kuralt for his autograph. Though the networks probably spent $200,000 on the ten-day publicity binge, the gifts (rugby shirts and overnight bags) and entertainments (trips to Tijuana and harbor cruises) of past years were notably absent...