For CBS correspondent Dan Rather, known

to millions of TV, iewers as the co-editor of

"60 Minutes" and currently as chief editor

of "Who s Who." it all began in an obscure

Texas college.There a professor had assigned

Dan and his fellow students the works of a

courageous broadcast journalist. " For the

working reporter," the teacher demanded,

"what is the most important thing Elmer

Davis said?" There was silence in the class-

room. Finally the teacher told them: "Don t

let the bastards scare you."

It was a lesson Dan Rather never forgot--

in Vietnam and in Washington during the

heartbreak and shame of Watergate, or while

covering the assassinations of John F. Ken-

nedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., or climb-

ing into the mountain fastness of Tibet to

capture for the first time on film the armed

soldiers of the People s Republic of China.

Now in his candid and charming book,

Mr. Rather brings alive the fascinating world