Spoiler : host of Martin Agronsky: Evening Edition on PBS-TV (1971-1974?); Agronsky At Large (1975); syndicated television series, Agronsky And Company (1976-1988 his retirement). Awards include the Heywood Broun Award, as well as the George Foster Peabody Award (1952); Alfred I. duPont Award (1961); Emmy Award (1968); National Headliner Awards (?). Venice Film Festival Award for a documentary he made on an undersea voyage aboard a Polaris submarine. Retired in 1988

Spoiler : Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1/12/1915; died 7/25/1999 of congestive heart failure at his home in Washington, D.C. Married to Helen Smathers (1943-1969 her death; Sharon Agronsky (?-?). Agronsky graduated from Rutgers in 1936, then worked for the Palestine Post, now the Jerusalem Post in Jerusalem (1936-1937). Freelance newspaper reporter (1937-1940). WWII War correspondent with NBC-Radio (1940-1944). ABC-Radio newsman (1944-1957). Reporter-commentator on The ABC Morning News (1944-1956). Rejoined the NBC Network in 1957.

Spoiler : Host of At Issue, a program featuring important people and issues of the day on ABC-TV (1953- 1954); Look Here (program was At Issue for NBC-TV from 1957 until 1958). In 1962 Agronsky was described as the most aggressive newsman on television. Moderator for Face The Nation on CBS- TV (1965-1969). News anchor for WTOP-TV in Washington, D.C., now WUSA-TV (1969-1971). Commentator-