Appeared, with all the other surviving "Today Show" hosts, in a week-long 30th-anniversary salute to the program in January 1982.
Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives." Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 308-309. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.
He once did a commercial for a tall man's clothing line because he stood over six feet tall himself.
He was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 6355 Hollywood Boulevard and for Television at 6264 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
His usual sign off was "Peace"