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...nearly 20 years now, millions of Americans have first learned about the bad news-and sometimes the good-from the reassuring baritone of Walter Cronkite. With his retirement this week as anchorman from the CBS Evening News goes the man who more than anyone else has shaped and given stature to the role. In the fickle high-risk arena of television, where admiration swiftly changes to boredom or dislike, Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America," has been the stablest on-screen presence of them all. His departure is forcing a restudy, at all three networks, of the job itself...
...Being anchorman isn't something that everybody can do, but it is something that hundreds can. Millions of advertising dollars, and each network's prestige, turn on how well this or that person delivers roughly the same news, introducing brief snatches of picture coverage and reading words that usually were written by others. Can Cronkite's replacement, Dan Rather, with that four-square forthrightness of his, and his adrenalized ambition, keep the loyalty of those accustomed to Cronkite's businesslike, low-key delivery? Or will NBC's John Chancellor, another in the trusty Cronkite mold...
...final week as anchorman Cronkite is at his desk as the bright lights turn on about ten minutes before the broadcast, in the low-ceilinged newsroom on Manhattan's West Side. In shirtsleeves, Cronkite reads through the copy with a stopwatch, addresses a question over his shoulder to whoever should know the answer ("Don't we have any more on this?"), occasionally turns to the typewriter to rephrase a sentence. Nobody speaks to him unless spoken to. The same sort of invisible cocoon isolates a professional football coach on the sideline from the players around him. Someone unobtrusively...
Higher praise came from John Chancellor, who concluded the NBC Nightly News with a tribute to his longtime rival: "He brought such distinction to his work as a network anchorman that he made the rest of us look a little better...
Assuring his viewers he would continue to report and to broadcast. Cronkite said "Old anchorman, you see, don't just fade away. They just keep coming back for more...