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   Louis Epstein to radioacti...@gmail.com   
   Re: Charles Osgood, CBS News broadcaster   
   24 Jan 24 03:21:30   
   
   From: le@main.lekno.ws   
      
   radioacti...@gmail.com  wrote:   
   > The late poet laureate of CBS News wasn't merely good;   
   > Charles Osgood's reporting-in-verse indeed stood   
   > For decades as solid as oak, or even denser wood.   
   > Lesser broadcasters might also rhyme their newscasts, if they could;   
   > Yet it would never rank with all those sterling words from Osgood.   
   >   
   > BRYAN STYBLE/Florida   
   > ===================   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Osgood   
      
   ...looking that up earlier was where I learned that   
   his real name was Charles Osgood Wood III.   
   Brad Ferguson mentioned long ago that Osgood had   
   some old-money forebears...I had wondered but never   
   researched whether he was connected to the publisher   
   James R. Osgood.   
      
   (Kevin Bacon I believe is from the   
   Allyn & Bacon Bacons).   
      
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