Larry King in a NYT profile and a few personal recollections about his CNN show

A wonderful bit of nostalgia today in the NYT Sunday Magazine profile about the iconic broadcaster named Lawrence Harvey Zeiger who began his career as a temporary host at a Miami radio station in 1957 before going on to become Larry King for a quarter century at CNN.
The first time I was on "Larry King Live" was in 1986. He had only been at CNN for a year. And the night I appeared to discuss my "Mengele" bio, King was on vacation and his replacement was Dick Cavett. Not a bad swap.

And over th...