“Cool as a hog on ice”: Morley Safer, the Canadian-born combat correspondent who went on to become an iconic television investigative journalist who couldn’t suppress his love of quirk, is retiring from the small screen after a 48-year run on CBS’ 60 Minutes. Expect retrospectives in the U.S. press all week — and that we’ll have a couple of them for you next weekend. Why do we think Morley is the bomb? It started with his coverage of Vietnam: “Joe Stringham, who commanded a Green Beret unit that Mr. Safer accompanied into battle in Vietnam … recalled Mr. Safer as being all business, ‘We looked at eternity right in the face a couple of times and he was as cool as a hog on ice,’” a New York Times piece recalls. Get Financial History Geek Points for reading or watching Safer’s interview with Andrew and Ruth Madoff, the family of Bernie Bernie Madoff, in 2011. Get triple Geek Points for watching “Morley Safer’s favorite New Yorker cartoons: Morley Safer picks some of his favorite cartoons from his 60-odd years as a reader of The New Yorker magazine.” (Run time: 4:57)