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Article: Walter Cronkite speaks to where we live.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- January 8, 1997
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Walter Cronkite is famous _ yet, if you met him on the street, you'd expect him to ask how the family is. Consequently his biography, ``A Reporter's Life,'' feels familiar.
In the avuncular style that endeared him to CBS' evening-news audience, Cronkite recounts life among the powerful during major moments in world history.
His stories are as unassuming as a Midwest farmer's work shoe. They're modest in the literary sense for a man who spent many years as a war correspondent for United Press (though wire-service reporters fire off so much copy that they rarely have time to launch soaring language).
Telling about his first job of ...