Andy Rooney grew up in Albany and attended The Albany University and Colgate Academy. In 1941, at the age of 22 he was drafted into the Army and was posted to London. There 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 1949 for CBS and established a name for himself over many years as a correspondent and commentator. He is probably best remembered by TV audiences for his regular closing segment on _"60 Minutes" , "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney". He died in November 2011 at the age of 92 but had continued working until just a few weeks earlier.
While a reporter for "Stars & Stripes" during WWII, Rooney covered the incident used in Steven Spielberg s "Amazing Stories" {The Mission (#1.5)} episode of "Amazing Stories" . The lower turret gunner of a B-17 is stuck in the ball (ventral) turret as the plane comes in for a belly (without wheels) landing. In real life, the ball gunner was killed on landing.
He won the Bronze Star for World War II reporting.
Father-in-law of Cecile Callan.
Children: Brian Rooney , Emily Rooney , Ellen Rooney and Martha Rooney.
Member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity
Retired from "60 Minutes" in October 2011.
Death is just a distant rumor to the young.
As someone who never misses a Giants game myself, I want to talk about,the IQ of football fans.
I just wish insignificance had more stature.
If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
There are more beauty parlors than there are beauties.
