How appropriate that this picture was scheduled for this issue. Walter Cronkite, the legendary journalist and iconic television anchorman, passed away last month and the country grieved. In this photo. he posed with Al Wahnon, editor and publisher of Floor Covering News, during a banquet held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York for the benefit of cancer research. Allied Chemical invited several carpet executives to the affair, which was held March 6, 1991.