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Walter and Herb on the bounding main

Jul. 23, 2009
More memories of Walter Cronkite: Jim Flood says that Cronkite wasn't a sailor at all until he set out with friends on San Francisco Bay, aboard the 50-foot-long ketch belonging to Enrico Banducci. This was the summer of 1962, writes Flood, and the sailors...
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NEW YORK, June 19 (UPI) -- Veteran newscaster Walter Cronkite, 92, is reported to be gravely ill, multiple sources at CBS have told an online news site.
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego wins Finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Snigdha Nandipati of San Diego, California watches confetti rain down as she wins the two-day Scripps National Spelling Bee championship, May 31, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Nandipati successfully spelled the word .* guetapens *, meaning to lure or ambush. UPI/Mike Theiler