When was andy rooney born

He attended Colgate Academy. In , at the age of 22 he was drafted into the Army and was posted to London, where he began writing for Stars and Stripes, the US armed forces newspaper and later in the war he became one of the first US journalists to report on the Nazi concentration camps. He began working as a broadcast journalist in for CBS. He established a name for himself over many years as a correspondent and commentator.

He died in November , aged 92, having continued working until just a few weeks earlier. Sieger updated. The sum of the numbers assigned to the letters of Rooney based on English alphabet equals 92, the age Rooney died. The sum of the prime factors of 92, namely 2 and 23, equals 25 and the 25th palindromic prime number is Moreover, 44 equals 11 x 4, that is, the product of the month and day numbers of the day Rooney died.

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He did not hobnob and would not sign autographs, except on his books, of which he produced more than a dozen. He also wrote for more than newspapers. Rooney was born in Albany, New York, and grew up in a middle-class family. As a reporter for Stars and Stripes, he was based in London and, with a handful of other American journalists, interviewed returning US bomber crews.

The group of reporters requested — and were granted permission — to take to the air themselves, and on his first flight over Germany in February , Rooney's bomber was hit and damaged.

His story about the incident ended with a quote from the pilot about the "quiet trip". Rooney wryly wrote: "I don't want to go on a noisy one. After a Hollywood stint writing the script for a never-made film based on one of his other war books, he freelanced as a writer until , when he confronted, in the CBS lift, Arthur Godfrey, the biggest radio star of the day. With his bulldog face, bushy eyebrows and somewhat whiny delivery, the stocky Rooney was irresistible fodder for parody.

In , CBS News suspended him without pay for three months in the wake of his remarks about blacks and gays attributed to him in the Advocate, a magazine that covers the gay community. The Feb. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times after his suspension, Rooney categorically denied making the statement attributed to him about blacks during his phone interview with the Advocate.

But he did confirm that he wrote the letter to the magazine commenting on gays in response to criticisms of his views on homosexuality. I am just infuriated by the notion that I am being called a racist. Anyone who knows me knows that is not true.

In the end, CBS, faced with an overwhelmingly negative public response to his suspension, reinstated Rooney after only three weeks. On Oct. The son of a traveling salesman father, Rooney was born Jan. In the process, Sgt. Rooney flew with the 8th Air Force on the first American bombing raid over Germany and covered the invasion of France after landing on a Normandy beach four days after D-day in June