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COMMENTS: Great Balls of Twine
Steve Hartman, the human interest specialist who closes CBS' newscasts each week with his Assignment America series, paid tribute to the daddy of all human interest correspondents, his network's Charles Kuralt, who died in 1997. Hartman unveiled his series On the Road Again which retraces some of Kuralt's byway discoveries. First off was Francis Johnson's giant ball of twine, found in Darwin Minn 30 years ago. Inspired by Kuralt's first On the Road showcase, rival balls have been wound in Kansas and Wisconsin. The Twine Ball Museum in Darwin maintains its claim to fame by dismissing the Kansas ball as group-wrapped and Wisconsin's for deviation from the spherical. In the meantime Minnesota's ball is shrinking. It sheds fiber every day.
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