You might think it is rather sick for a TV show to celebrate marital betrayal on Valentine's Day. But wait, it's OK, because the adulterer was a celebrity.
Celebrity is America's most powerful disinfectant.
Thus King gushed about the beauty of this extramarital relationship between CBS newsman Charles Kuralt and Patricia Shannon. In fact, King was utterly baffled that Kuralt's family would not want to fork over more land and property to Shannon. On the one hand, there is something to be said for the fact that popular culture no longer targets men's mistresses for gratuitous abuse. Old mores spared the cheating husbands and wrongly directed the social stigma toward his side dish. It so ruled even though Kuralt had had Shannon removed from his will in 1994 and even though Kuralt had time to draft a will leaving the additional property to Shannon but failed to do so.