schlum krauthammer, who spoke nine languages, even carried his son's stellar second grade report card around in his coat pocket. >> his motto for us was, "i want you to know everything. i want you to learn everything. you don't have to do everything, but you got to know everything." he thought that was part of life. >> that life did not include a tv, says the cable news pundit. >> my father wouldn't allow it. once a week, sunday night, we'd go to the neighbors to watch "the ed sullivan show." that was the one concession, the television. >> inspired by uncles who were doctors, marcel krauthammer went to medical school. it was assumed charles would follow. but as a 19-year-old senior at mcgill, the internationally renowned canadian university, he was bitten by a different bug -- political journalism. >> well, that was a little bit of campus intrigue. the editorship of the newspaper at mcgill was controlled by the student council. i'd been elected to the student council, and the paper was becoming unreadable. it was run by marxists, maoists. i mean, it was just -- it looked like it came