Show Business: Anchors Away

Anchorman Walter Cronkite no longer rusts on the bottom. After drifting ineffectually through the Democratic Convention with two replacements, CBS has restored Cronkite—and banished the word anchor from its vocabulary. On election night, Cronkite's title will be "National Editor Assigned to Integrate and Summarize the Overall Election Story." Which is a long way to spell crow.

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