Walter Cronkite Interviews Gertrude Stein

The Daily Texan has unearthed a profile of The Quotable One which the late newscaster wrote while he was a student at the University of Texas. Among Miss Stein’s observations: “A writer isn’t anything but contemporary. The trouble is that the people are living Twentieth Century and thinking Nineteenth Century. … [At a school Stein had recently visited,] the girls of from fourteen to seventeen understood [her writing] perfectly, but their teachers did not.”