DIED. Harry Reasoner, 68, avuncular television newsman who brought a droll flavor to his reporting for CBS News, especially on 60 Minutes, which he helped launch in 1968; of cardiopulmonary arrest; in Norwalk, Conn. Starting at CBS in 1956, Reasoner wrote and reported for daily newscasts, specials and CBS Reports. Convinced he'd never get the chance to anchor the CBS Evening News while Walter Cronkite was still there, Reasoner jumped to ABC in 1970. Network chiefs angered Reasoner in 1976 when they hired Barbara Walters to be co-host of the ABC Evening News. He returned to CBS in 1978.