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When did Walter Cronkite become an anchor for CBS
On April 16, 1962, Walter Cronkite succeeded Douglas Edwards as anchorman of the CBS's nightly feature newscast, tentatively renamed Walter Cronkite with the News

Question: How did his career go?
Self-contained rewrite: How did Walter Cronkite's career go after succeeding Douglas Edwards as anchorman of the CBS's nightly feature newscast, tentatively renamed Walter Cronkite with the News?