When he was an 18-year-old undergrad at UT Austin, Walter Cronkite interviewed Gertrude Stein for The Daily Texan. His 1935 profile of this "extremely modern" woman is pretty amusing.

• Legendary newsman Walter Cronkite has died at 92; President Obama released a statement calling Cronkite "a voice of certainty in an uncertain world. He was family. He invited us to believe in him, and he never let us down."[Reuters]

• Britney shouted, "What's up London?" at a recent gig… In Manchester. Mancunians were irritated. [Daily Mail]