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...victims, Commissioner Brown hastened to deny the report. Dozens of publications reported that police in East Fishkill, N.Y., had arrested a black ex-convict who allegedly had abducted a nine-year-old boy and driven off in a truck with Georgia license plates. On the CBS Evening News, Anchorman Dan Rather detailed the arrest, linked it to Atlanta and did not until the last sentences of his minute-long report disclose to his viewers that authorities had decided the man could not have had anything to do with the Atlanta killings. Atlantans were even more irked at a Washington Post...
When Walter Cronkite signed off The Evening News to follow other pursuits, few could have guessed that his first-indeed, almost immediate -move would be from the newsroom to the board room. But last week, just days after he vacated the anchorman's chair he had occupied for 19 years, Pan American World Airways announced that Cronkite had been named a director of the company. "I've always had an interest in flight and the airlines and a fondness for Pan Am in particular," explained Cronkite. "It made a perfect fitting of interests...
...Cronkite addressed the suddenly hushed throng, barely choking back tears when Leonard, president of CBS News, presented him with a gold-plated replica of the microphone the anchorman had used at his first convention on 1956. The 1980 gatherings were Cronkite's last...
...sermonizing, this time on the follies of the Reagan economic program. That aside, the performance was as smooth as the whir of a blow dryer. The only tough moment came during a commercial break following a segment on Rita Jenrette's tale of congressional philandering. "Say, John," hollered Anchorman Fahey Flynn, "how did you stay in Washington so long without getting into trouble?" Anderson was clearly embarrassed: "I can't say. My wife is in the control room...
...Rather will be sitting at Cronkite's old desk next week, but restlessly. He doesn't like the word anchorman, and sees himself more as "a lead correspondent. I want to grab a pencil and get out of the office. I do not intend to be an inside man." But until Rather has shown that he can hold on to Cronkite's audience, CBS wants him at that familiar desk...