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falling apart. Amoung other things, he holds me responsible for his receding hairline. His theory is that every time I say anything mean to him it shuts off the circulation to his follicles and his hair inches back in fright.
  "Walter's mother still refuses to reveal her age, but rest assured she bears no resemblance to Whistler's. She summers with us on Martha's Vineyard, and considers a day without a party a total waste. Walter calls her the B-girl of the Amry-Navy Club in Washington, where she goes to chat up all the retired officers she knew from her girlhood on the Army base in Leavenworth, Kansas.
"I think the glue that holds Walter and me together is that we both still laugh a lot at each other's jokes. When a national magazine asked Walter to write his own 

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To my only Valentine
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Walter
Monday, 17 July, 1946

MRS. CRONKITE SHARES HER FAMILY PICTURES AND MEMORIES

At 64 Walter Cronkite is widely acknowledged to be the most trusted man in America. Many people believe he could be elected President, and many small boys think he already is. Every week hundreds of women propose to him by mail, despite the fact that he has been married to Betsy Maxwell Cronkite, a funny, smart, loving women, for 40 years. In this candid conversation with McCall's Helen Markel, the very private Betsy Cronkite talks about what is is like to live with on of the glories in American civilization.
  "I keep telling Walter he was a callow youth before I made him what he is today (if you don't believe me, just look at that autographed valentine picture from our courting  days). Unfortunately, he now looks better than ever while the rest of us are.

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DE SHA GUNTER
"Chip, 23, Walter's favorite sailor."
"My funny Valentine, 1946"

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