“The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.”

Occasionally attributed to Walters; actually said by Earl Warren, as quoted in Sports Illustrated (July 22, 1968).
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American broadcast journalist, author, and television perso… 1929

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