Walter Cronkite (1916-2009)

I am old enough to remember Walter Cronkite saying, "What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times... and you were there." That was before he became the kindly, yet authoritative voice of the news. He rarely expressed opinion, and when he did (we can't win in Vietnam), it mattered. After he retired from broadcasting, he wrote a column, saying sane things about the War on Some Drugs and the Marriage Hogging Amendment, among other things. He altered and illuminated my life, and I'm glad he was there.

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Hilzoy says good-bye.

Thanx to Obsidian Wings

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Swollen writer egos, by Diana Athill, who has one.

Thanx to oursin