Walter Cronkite, a newscaster from the 1950s and 1960s, had recently got new hearing aids -- thought you would like to read this from URL: http://www.hear-it.org/page.dsp?page=3079
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Cronkite renaissance with hearing aids
For more than half a century as the voice of American news, Walter Cronkite said it all. He reported for the radio from the battle fields of World War II. As the quintessential TV news anchor he broke the news of the death of President John F. Kennedy from the assassin's bullets 40 years ago in Dallas, Texas, and shed a tear. Today, at the age of 86, he feels the weight of his age.
"Well, I dislike it as much as anyone," he says to the Boston Globe, when asked how aging has affected him. "I dislike that my eyesight isn't as good as it was. And I really am very much disturbed over the loss of hearing. That has become quite severe, as you can tell."
Yet, thanks to a pair of hi-tech hearing aids in his ears, Cronkite is enjoying a renaissance as a heavy-weight speaker at presidential fees of $100,000 per speech, and as a newspaper columnist trying to inject some dignity into the political discourse of a polarized nation.
And, he adds, the recent summer was his best ever with visits at his Nantuckett home by all of his grandchildren.
Source: The Boston Globe, 2. November, 2003
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Cronkite renaissance with hearing aids
For more than half a century as the voice of American news, Walter Cronkite said it all. He reported for the radio from the battle fields of World War II. As the quintessential TV news anchor he broke the news of the death of President John F. Kennedy from the assassin's bullets 40 years ago in Dallas, Texas, and shed a tear. Today, at the age of 86, he feels the weight of his age.
"Well, I dislike it as much as anyone," he says to the Boston Globe, when asked how aging has affected him. "I dislike that my eyesight isn't as good as it was. And I really am very much disturbed over the loss of hearing. That has become quite severe, as you can tell."
Yet, thanks to a pair of hi-tech hearing aids in his ears, Cronkite is enjoying a renaissance as a heavy-weight speaker at presidential fees of $100,000 per speech, and as a newspaper columnist trying to inject some dignity into the political discourse of a polarized nation.
And, he adds, the recent summer was his best ever with visits at his Nantuckett home by all of his grandchildren.
Source: The Boston Globe, 2. November, 2003