Earlier this week, The Observer reported on newsman godhead Walter Cronkite's $4.275 million sale of a townhouse at 160 East 95th Street.
Walter “Chip” Cronkite III, who lived in the house with his actress-wife Deborah Rush (they were on the sales deed as well), returned a reporter’s call today to talk about the Read More
As The Real Deal magazine reported on its Web site late Friday, the godly anchorman Walter Cronkite just sold a townhouse at 160 East 95th Street for $4.275 million.
The deal has a few interesting back stories, starting with the fact that the 11-room house really belonged to his son Walter "Chip" Cronkite III, Read More
Now that Katie Couric—America’s High Priestess of Perky—will take over the vaunted anchor chair at CBS News, where Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite once reigned, it’s time for the network news brass to stop taking themselves so seriously.
C’mon, folks, you can relax. We all know that network news isn’t about news Read More
Names appearing in the center section of Romenesko for April 6, as of 12:30 p.m., from bottom to top:
Couric, Goodman, Pickford, Couric, Brook Barnes, Katie Couric, Couric, Couric, Couric, Couric, Stanley, Walter [Cronkite], Couric, Chung, [Katie] Couric, Bill Carter, Couric, Couric, Vargas, Williams, Couric, Rooney, Schieffer, Couric, Matea Gold, Murphy, Bob, Bob Schieffer, Read More
On Friday, The Drug Policy Alliance released a letter written on their behalf by Walter Cronkite.
In it, Cronkite, ‘the most trusted man in America’, states:
“Today, our nation is fighting two wars: one abroad and one at home,” Cronkite wrote. “While the war in Iraq is in the headlines, the other Read More
After years of insisting that political conventions still play a useful role in American society, I am ready to flip-flop. The spectacles in Boston and New York this year have convinced me that those who dismiss these events as meaningless, vacuous infomercials do, in fact, have a point, and that I simply have been reluctant Read More
Hell’s Kitchen High-Rise
Is Wake-Up Call for Residents
When Donald Trump-the developer community boards love to hate-erected his eponymous, 861-foot high Trump World Tower on First Avenue between 47th and 48th streets, the lawsuits came pouring in. Walter Cronkite was up in arms. Then–City Planning Commissioner Joseph Rose proposed sweeping changes in the zoning Read More
Wednesday 3rd
Elle is other people: Personally, we’re in no mood for fund-raisers-unless they involve a bunch of firefighters or three solid hours of mournful Mahler. But a few plucky uptowners are pressing on with their “Shelter for Shelters” benefit, a tour of rich people’s downtown lofts to boost the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Read More
