Antedating of TV "Anchor Man"

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>   TELEVISION IN REVIEW; ' You Are There' Re-Creates Hindenburg Disaster
> -- The Milton Berle Show ; By JACK GOULD; New York Times (1857-Current
> file), New York, N.Y.; Feb 8, 1953; pg. X13, 1 pgs ("Walter Cronkite,
> peering out of his inevitable spot in the lower right-hand corner of the
> split screen, was cast in his familiar role as the anchor man in the
> imaginary spot news coverage of the landing.")

Here are earlier citations:

1950 _N.Y. Times_ 10 Sept. 109  Swayze is also the anchor man on "Who Said
That?"

1952 _N.Y. Times_ 2 Mar. 35  What emerged from the television screen ...
was the personal contest between acidulous Lawrence Spivak, anchor man on
the "Meet the Press" panel, and Lord Russell.

1952 _N.Y. Times_ 7 Nov. 31  The American Broadcasting used an
old-fashioned blackboard, which was diffcult fro John Daly, the network's
anchor man on the election, to read.

Fred Shapiro


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