Eulogy: BOB TROUT

If all reporters of news were as fastidious with the facts and as perspicacious with their presentation as was BOB TROUT, the nation's opinion of reporters would be greatly higher than it is.

When old friends die, unintended we assign them a rank in our memory. Bob Trout will be in the top row in the memory of anyone who knew him. We were not close friends, but I knew him first in London in 1943 and last at lunch three weeks ago. Walter Cronkite, Bob Trout and I were to have appeared together last Friday at the University of Texas...

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