Wall Street Week: Unhip, Unabashed, Unbeaten

摘要

Every Friday, Louis Rukeyser checks into the same fustily elegant Baltimore hotel. From there he heads to the low-slung Maryland public-television-station building in Owings Mills, Md., where he's taped Wall Street Week With Louis Rukeyser for almost 28 years. After exchanging pleasantries with the gang at the front desk, he holes up for an afternoon of work—checking stock prices, answering fan mail, and writing the opening quips and comments he'll use on the show that night. A few minutes later his assistant brings in lunch, also always the same: a ham-and-cheese sandwich with water and coffee on the side. "My editor told me that journalists should always order ham-and-cheese on rye," he once said, "and leave the creativity for work."