Playboy Interview: Walter Cronkite

Playboy Interview: Walter CronkiteIn commenting on the demise of Life magazine last autumn, former chief editorial writer John K. Jessup remarked, "Except maybe for Walter Cronkite, there is no more focal point of national information cutting across these special interests, no cracker barrel, no forum, no well." Certainly, if God had set out to create a prototypical middle American, He could have done little better than limn the image of the sad-eyed 56-year-old man--at his CBS anchor...