The Washington Post headline read, “wry stalwart of ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ dead.”
Wry stalwart seemed to conjure up an image of the man himself, as apt a description as possible for Charles Osgood Wood, known to all as Charles Osgood. He died at age 91 last week.
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