Pieces of My Mind is published and becomes a best seller Receives a second Emmy award for “A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney” Is awarded a News and Documentary Emmy for “A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney” Syndicated column is published and distributed through Tribune MediaĪ Few Minutes with Andy Rooney (the book) is published and quickly becomes a best seller Receives a Writers Guild Award for “Happiness: The Elusive Pursuit” Receives an Emmy Award for “Who Owns What in America” “A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney” replaces “Point/Counterpoint” Rooney Goes to Work”ĭon Hewitt airs Rooney’s humorous on-air segment “Three Minutes with Andy Rooney” as a summer fill-in for the “Point/Counterpoint” face-off between Shana Alexander and James Kilpatrick Writes and stars in the CBS prime-time feature “Mr. Rooney Goes to Dinner,” for which he receives a Writers Guild Award Is awarded a Peabody for the piece, as well as a Writers Guild Award for best TV documentary Writes and appears in his celebration of New York, “In Praise of New York City” Returns to CBS to continue write, produce, and narrate full-length pieces for 60 Minutes and to write for various CBS broadcasts “An Essay on War” is aired on PBS’s The Great American Dream Machine and receives a Writers Guild Award for the first time, narrates his own piece on air Quits CBS after their refusal to air his “An Essay on War” Writes Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed, narrated by Bill Cosby, and is awarded a Writers Guild Award and an Emmy Award for his scriptĪppears for the first time on television on the 60 Minutes broadcast “Digressions” with Palmer Williams Receives Writers Guild of America Award for best TV documentary for The Great Love Affair Writes television essay on Frank Sinatra narrated by Walter Cronkite and produced by Don Hewitt Writes his first television essay, “An Essay on Doors” The Fortunes of War: Four Great Battles of World War II is publishedīegins work with CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Harry Reasoner on a series of TV specials that include pieces on bridges, hotels, and the English language Writes for The Garry Moore Show, for Victor Borge, Herb Shriner, and Bob and Ray and contributes to CBS News’ “The Twentieth Century,” “Adventure,” “Calendar,” and The Morning Show Joins CBS as a writer for megawatt radio and TV personality Arthur Godfrey writes for The Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts and Arthur Godfrey Time until 1955ĭaughters Emily and Martha Rooney are bornĪdapts E. Returns to Albany, New York, and embarks on a freelance careerĬonquerors’ Peace: A Report to the American Stockholders (written with Bud Hutton), which derives from the Cosmopolitan assignment, is published MGM buys movie rights to The Story of the Stars and Stripes for $55,000 (Rooney and Hutton are hired by MGM to work on the script)Īssigned by Cosmopolitan to cover postwar Europe with Bud Hutton in ten pieces The Story of the Stars and Stripes (written with Bud Hutton) is published Lands on Utah Beach in Normandy, three days after D-dayĮncounters Ernest Hemingway at hotel outside Paris and finds him ill-manneredĮnters Paris with the French Army the day the city is liberated from GermanyĪir Gunner (written with Bud Hutton) is published Murrowįlies with the Eighth Air Force on the second American bombing raid on Germany Meets United Press reporter Walter Cronkite, Stars and Stripes correspondent Don Hewitt (who would become the executive of 60 Minutes), and Edward R. Joins the Armed Forces newspaper The Stars and Stripes in their London office Augustine, Florida, for sitting in the back of the Army bus alongside African American soldiersĪrrives in Perham Downs, England, with the 17th Field Artillery Andrew Aitken Rooney is born in Albany, New York, to Walter Scott and Ellinor Rooney.Īttends Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, where he becomes editor of Colgate’s magazine The Banterĭrafted into the Army, heads to training in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, followed by Camp Blanding, FloridaĪrrested outside St.
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