Word: careers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cronkite has no plans to extend his brief but successful career in international mediation. "I don't think a journalist should become involved in high-level diplomacy," he says, "but it is a journalist's duty to pursue these diplomatic pronouncements. I wasn't trying to get this meeting started. My official attitude is I couldn't care less about it, though I can't help believing it will be important and helpful. Maybe we [at CBS] were catalysts. But then, maybe they would have gotten together without...
...MENCKEN would have enjoyed No Big Deal: certainly in the strangled locutions of Fidrych he would have had dozens of entries for his Dictionary of the American Language. Tom Clark spent five days interviewing Fidrych and the product is this engaging, somewhat sophomoric account of the player's short career. Clark organized the narrative with some witty captions, which are an incongruously deadpan contrast to Fidrych's fractured lingo...
...Connor comes off a successful five-year coaching career at Cayuga County Community College in Auburn, N.Y. The new position marks a breakthrough for O'Connor into the ranks of major college coaching...
...says Pamela Hudak, 21, a Boston secretary who has lived for more than a year with Herb Witten, 27. "We're faithful to each other. We never cheat. But I really don't want to get married right now. I want to wait and see where my career goes...
DIED. Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, 81, member of baseball's Hall of Fame who managed five major league teams during his 29-year career; of Parkinson's disease; in Bethesda, Md. After playing second base for the Washington Senators, Harris became the "boy manager" of the team at age 27 and led them to the 1924 World Series title. After that the gentlemanly pilot had a flurry of failures, but in 1947 he guided the Yankees to the world championship...