Press: Travels with Charlie

TV's wandering minstrel finally comes to anchor

"I 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...

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