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Andy Rooney was born in Albany in January 1919 and grew up in the Capital District (of NYS), the son of Walter and Elinor (Reynolds) Rooney. He attended Colgate Academy. In 1941, 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 1949 for CBS. He 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 (1968), "A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney". He died in November 2011, aged 92, having continued working until just a few weeks earlier.

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