ABSTRACT
The place: Center Harbor, Maine. The participants? Walter Cronkite [at that time, television’s leading news anchorman] and a group of Center Harbor’s citi-zens. What happened? Cronkite piloted his boat toward the dock. Supposedly an excellent sailor, Cronkite noticed a group of people on land, who were waving to him and yelling “Hello Walter, Hello Walter.” Cronkite was flattered by the yelling crowd, waved back and took a bow. Suddenly, Cronkite drove his boat aground. He suddenly realized the crowd was actually yelling “Low Water!,” not “Hello Walter!”1
