Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...creation of the Roth chair will give the B-School a total of five chairs devoted to the study of retailing, Robert D. Buzzell, professor of Marketing and probably successor to the Kresge chair, said yesterday. "That's got to be a world's record of some kind," he added...
...most respected broadcast journalist of his era? Some time next year Cronkite's program will be rechristened the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, and like Cronkite, he will have the title of managing editor. Uncle Walter, 63, who chose to stay out of the selection process for his successor, plans to continue as anchor at least through the presidential inauguration next January. "I've inaugurated every President since Harry Truman," he said last week. "I want to do one more." After that he is planning to stay on at CBS doing documentaries, special assignments and a new science show...
...that he recently refused to fill in one week for Cronkite; he wanted to go skiing instead. "I think he overestimated his hand," says one colleague. Said Mudd, who may well leave the network: "The management of CBS and CBS News has made its decision on Walter Cronkite's successor, according to its current values and standards. From the beginning, I have regarded myself as a news reporter, not as a newsmaker or a celebrity...
...this organization, and I think I can do anything you've got to do.' " Rather finally got a weekend anchor assignment added to his duties as CBS man at the Nixon White House, but the feeling that he had arbitrarily been ruled out as ever being successor to Cronkite still rankled. His 1977 autobiography The Camera Never Blinks (written with Mickey Herskowitz) amounted to effective lobbying over the heads of the network brass and toward the public at large. The book was a bestseller in both hardback and paperback. Says Rather today: "I suddenly found myself...
...anchor, Walter Cronkite was talking retirement-even though his current $600,000-a-year contract with CBS Evening News has another year to run and his commitment to the network as nonretirable talent is unchanged. Some telegossips said Walter wanted out; others suggested he was helping CBS retain Probable Successor Dan Rather, who was being heavily wooed by ABC. Either way Cronkite could certainly leave with honorable profit in other fields...