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...political convention when we all didn't say we were never going to another one." The Democratic ses sion in New York City next month has special significance: sit will mark the end of Walter E Cronkite's 28-year stint as the 5 CBS convention anchorman. "I think we'll know in a week or ten days how that one's going to shape up," said Cronkite eagerly. "We could have a beauty there." - By Stephen Smith, Reported by Elizabeth Rudulph/Detroit
SEEKING DIVORCE. Harry Reasoner, 57, veteran television correspondent and wry, easygoing anchorman of CBS News's 60 Minutes; and Kathleen Carroll Reasoner...
Roger Mudd learned the news only moments before it was officially announced last February: Dan Rather, the handsome, rat-a-tat-tat 60 Minutes correspondent, had been chosen to succeed Walter Cronkite as anchorman on the CBS Evening News. Until that instant, Mudd, 52, had been sure that the job would eventually be his. He had, after all, been filling in for Cronkite on weekends and vacations since the late '60s. Stunned and humiliated, Mudd took a paid leave of absence and in June began talking to rival networks ABC and NBC. "I have regarded myself as a news...
Mudd finally made his move last week. He signed with NBC as "chief Washington correspondent," and there was speculation that he would succeed John Chancellor as anchorman, perhaps as early as next year. Said Chancellor: "I think I will stay beyond the elections, but I don't know how long." One knowledgeable correspondent sized up NBC'S anchor situation this way: "What [News President William] Small has in mind is keeping Chancellor on if he wants to stay and betting that Chancellor will catch up in the ratings with CBS when Cronkite goes. If he doesn...
Make Howard Cosell anchorman on ABC World News Tonight...