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ROBERT UUALK6R VicG-President for Devolopmont, TRMU Thursday Feb. 12 f 1981 8:00 p.m. Zachry 103 Rdmission Fr<se> Coffee ujiil be served at 7:30 p.m. ‘That's the way it is' Cronkite to resign in March United Press International NEW YORK — One score and ten years ago, television brought forth on this nation a new content ment, Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. It was altogether fitting and proper that they should do this: the man had begun preparing in high school for his life work, the purveying of news. But there is an anomaly here, in view of the steady broadcasting that Cronkite has been doing for 30 years. What he prepared for, and en gaged in superbly before taking permanently to the mike, print journalism, the printed word. Today he will tell you: “It’s fun ny that I’ve now spent more time in broadcasting than in newspap- ering — but I still think of myself as a newspaperman.” When this newsman steps away from his anchorman job (having attained such a position of deity “It’s funny tha t I’ve now spen t more time in broadcasting than in newspapering— but I still think of myself as a newspaperman. ” that in Sweden the word Cronki- ter means anchorman) somewhere around the Ides of March, a favo rite uncle will be saying goodbye to his kinfolk, some 17 million nightly. Uncle Walter, anchorman and managing editor of “CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, ” hol der of the title “most trusted man in America,” and for three years the only journalist voted among the top 10 most influential deci- CAMPUS THEATRE 210 University 846-6512 Now Showing: WILLIE NELSON AND FRIENDS IN ATOKA” Starting Friday: CHEVY CHASE and GOLDIE HAWN SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES” lOOOOOOOOOOOO’ MANOR EAST 3 Manor East Mall 823-8300 No Cowboys, No Indians No Cavalry To The Rescue, Only A Cop. ZIP-A-OEE-DOO-OAH! ‘V >' V'" Wall IHsncv'n Song&Southtjf I hi II > M m.Oll' GOLDIE HAWN CHEVY CHASE “SEEMS LIKE OLD TIMES” sion makers in the country, has been bellwether of the nightly newscast since April 1962. His decision to weigh anchor this coming spring has caused comment within the industry that the event may mark the end of the image of anchorman as deity, with influence and respect that make him a symbol of his company. There is another aspect to his leaving the job, put forth by Elmer W. Lower, former president of ABC News, who worked with Cronkite at CBS three decades was ago: “He’s one of the last of the old pros out of the hard news busi ness, out of the print news busi ness. You see, at first we hired a lot of people like that. But today they hire them from television stations. There may never be another Cronkite in that respect.” Cronkite was 16 years old when he got his first bylines, in the Houston Post. As a carrier boy, he got up at 3 a. m. to plunk onto front porches newspapers carrying stor ies that he had written the day before as a non-paid summertime novice newsman. It was 1937, springtime, when he got hired by the United Press in Kansas City, a relationship that lasted 11 years. They sent him back to Austin and other Texas towns and then returned him to Kansas City. His several stints at UP were interrupted by excur sions into radio. Once, he had earned a reputation at KCMO by doing reconstructed football games from Western Union re ports (even as Ronald Reagan had done), and station WKY in Okla homa City hired him to do games live. Again, he didn’t want to go, but he was thinking of getting mar ried, and they tripled his UP salary. That lasted a year, which started in disaster. He had never done live football, so he whipped up an electric play-by-play board. Two spottrs would push buttons Walter Cronkite SSL HEZZinJBl Joggingcentm^Acros^rofT^iJ BE CALL 840-6714 FOR CORRECT TIMES! OPEN 7:15 1 Golden Globe Nomination* I Beet picture, Beat actress-Oolly Parton. ‘NINETOFIVE”<PG) Dolly Parton Jane Fonda Lily Tomlin 7:25 & 9:45 The Comedy Duo of the Year! Gene Wilder & Richard Pryor TOGETHER AGAIN IN ‘STIR CRAZY” (R) 7:35 & 9:55 lighting up on the board the names of players in various plays — he wouldn’t have to look at the game. “But the board sort of pooped out, and the two spotters weren’t any good. At the first game, the station owner stood behind me saying ‘Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god’ for the entire game. It didn’t help my morale any.” But he wasn’t fired. He buckled down and learned his job and cal led the games as he saw them. During WWII, he was sta tioned as a correspondent on the battleship Texas. There followed a series of adventures during which he was catapulted off the Texas deck in a biplane bound for Nor folk; it ran out of gas and sputtered down in Hampton Roads. He got ashore, found the phones secured against all use. He then hooked a ride to New York and walked into the UP bureau, fresh from the bat tlefield — and the phone operator who saw him first nearly fainted. He had been missing in battle for three weeks: the British had held up all his dispatches on North Africa at Gibraltar. He redeemed himself with a graphic uncensored story written in New York. In the middle of the war, Ed ward R. Murrow, the big gun of CBS war reporting, offered Cronkite a job. He accepted. Then the United Press gave him a $25 raise: “Well, that was a tremendous vote of confidence, and it really tore at me. “So I went trotting back to Murrow and said I can’t leave the UP. And he always thought I used him for a bargaining point, and I guess in a sense I did. It wasn’t intentional. Didn’t start that way.” After the war was over, Cronk ite went to Brussels, then to cover the Nuremberg war crimes trials, and then to a two-year stint, 1946- 48, as UP Moscow bureau man ager. Radio beckoned again — tri pling his salary. So he left the news agency and went to Washington for a group of eight Middle West ern stations. Then, in 1950, Ed Murrow in New York called down to Washington and said: “Do you want to try again?” He did — on July 1. He made a big hit on televi sion on the CBS-backed statim WTOP in Washington. Sig Mickelson, the CBS new boss, picked Cronkite to anchor the 1952 political conventions. He became an instant national star And the rest is broadcasting his tory. Walter married Mary Eli zabeth Maxwell of Kansas City- “ Betsy” — on March 30, 1940, ii Kansas City, naturally: “I thought everyhody’d want to he married io the Paris of the Midwest,” Betn says. Betsy confirms that the mat you see sitting before the mikeisfi feet tall (“if he doesn’t slump), tries to stay at 185 pounds (‘this morning, he had only skim milk) his favorite color is blue (“matches his eyes”), and he always has ml and cookies before bedtime ("gn ham crackers when he’s cutting down ”). What about people calling him uncle? “Yeah. Now they’re even cal ing him the grandfatherly Mr Cronkite. Oh boy, that really hurts. Seems like forever they’ve called him uncle. There was such a slew ofletters of protest when Cronkite announced a year ago that he was “He’s one of the last of the old pros onto! the hard news business, out of the print news business, You see, at first we hired a lot of people like that. But today they hire them from television stations. There may never be another Cronki te in that respect. ” leaving “sometime early in 1 that the evening news people saved some of them. Such as: “We were so devastated your announcement tonight, tears started to flow and I felt as if we all were on the verge of losing some- thing which can never be re placed.” “You are an intangible benefit of being an American. ” “Like President Lincoln, yoa have been the people’s represen tative and voice.” “You can’t do this to us.” i YES, You Can Still Get Involved in Student Government THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS ARE OPEN IN THE SENATE: Keathley - Fowler - Hughes - Spence - Briggs m\ Agriculture Graduate S IT 1 if: NT ( .( )V I HN \T I N r Applications are being taken until Friday, February 13, in the Student Govern ment Office, Room 216 MSC. 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