there in 1961 and was appointed Ferrari P. Ward professor of foreign languages and linguistics in 1966.”

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/114218/Noam–Chomsky (accessed March 12, 2009)

1950 CE:  WALTER CRONKITE, 34, JOINS CBS 

1951 CE:  J.D. SALINGER RELEASES THE CATCHER IN THE RYE 

Britannica –

“U.S. writer whose novel The Catcher in the Rye (1951) won critical acclaim and devoted admirers, especially among the post–World War II generation of college students. His entire corpus of published works consists of that one novel and 13 short stories, all originally written in the period 1948–59.

Salinger was the son of a Jewish father and a Christian mother, and, like Holden Caulfield, the hero of The Catcher in the Rye, he grew up in New York City, attending public schools and a military academy. After brief periods at New York and Columbia universities, he devoted himself entirely to writing, and his stories began to appear in periodicals in 1940. After his return from service in the U.S. Army (1942–46), Salinger’s name and writing style became increasingly associated with The New Yorker magazine, which published almost all of his later stories…

Major critical and popular recognition came with the publication of The Catcher in the Rye, whose central character, a sensitive, rebellious adolescent, relates in authentic teenage idiom his flight from the “phony” adult world, his search for innocence and truth, and his final collapse on a psychiatrist’s couch. The humor and colorful language of The Catcher in the Rye place it in the tradition