that they then strive to keep out of their work.”

Cronkite’s unhappiness with the manner in which he was ousted from the CBS anchor chair seemed to grow along with his liberality. Six months before his retirement age he was replaced by Dan Rather, whose agents, the story goes, told CBS management unless Rather got the job pronto they were moving him to ABC News. Walter was given a million a year, a seat on the directors’ board, and on March 6, 1981, he signed off, saying “I’ll be away on assignment.”

He reported for his final assignment in the early evening of Friday, July 17, 2009, at the age of 92.Police officers at Mission Police station managed to de-escalate a confrontation with a man brandishing a knife early Monday morning, ending the encounter with no serious injuries.

Public Information Officer Giselle Talkoff wrote in a statement that around 3:15 a.m., police received a call about a man yelling on Sycamore Street, an alley that ends at Valencia Street directly across from the parking lot of the Mission Police Station.

The 55-year-old man crossed Valencia into the station’s parking lot, brandishing a knife. He advanced through the parking lot with the knife, and approached some officers, Talkoff wrote.

The noise was loud enough to wake up nearby resident Ed Lee (no relation to the San Francisco Mayor) who wrote to Mission Local that he heard “a man screaming and yelling right outside