If Walter Cronkite is the father image of broadcast journalism and David Brinkley the cool analyst, Harry Reasoner of CBS is television's friendly next-door neighbor. Other commentators are effervescent or stern, puckish or olympian, earnest or remote. Reasoner comes across as warm, witty and involved not only with the news but with his audience as well. Everything about his face the grey-white shock of hair, shaggy temples, rugged chin, deep smile lines flanking a spreading nose seems square, safe and reassuring in a 'chaotic world. His manner brings viewers a message...
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