Morley Saferwho, at 84, announced his retirement last week after more than five decades at CBS News, all but six years of that peerless stretch as a star correspondent for 60 Minuteshas died.
As a combat reporter in Vietnam, ducking snipers bullets and enemy mortars while embedded with American soldiers on patrol, he was as cool as a hog on ice, retired Brig. Gen. Joe Stringham, a former Green Beret commander, recalled for Morley Safer: A Reporters Life, an hour-long special that aired last Sunday.
I saw that report last Sunday. Don’t retire, you’ll die.