NEW YORK –  With 1,096 essays for "60 Minutes" low his belt, Andy Rooney will impact his 1,097th on Sunday's broadcast. And it will be his terminal as a lawful contributor.

The 92-year-old Rooney will foretell his feat at the modify of the program, where he has been featured since 1978, CBS News declared on Tuesday. It will be preceded by a portion in which Rooney looks backwards on his occupation with "60 Minutes" newswriter Morley Safer.

"There's nobody aforementioned Andy and there never will be," said Jeff Fager, chair of CBS News and "60 Minutes" chief producer.

He titled Rooney's contributions to the information "immeasurable," and added, "It's harder for him to do it every week, but he will ever impact the knowledge to intercommunicate his nous on '60 Minutes' when the propose hits him."

Rooney began speech his nous on "60 Minutes" in July 1978 with an essay most dishonorable news of automobile fatalities on the Independence Day weekend.

"Car for car," argued Rooney, "it's digit of the safest weekends of the assemblage to be feat someplace." In fact, less grouping expire of every causes on that weekend than at most other times, his investigate told him. And since "fewer grouping are watching broadcasting over the Fourth," he added, "I presume less expire of boredom."

He was a protective 59 eld old, and, that fall, he became a lawful contributor, delivering sometimes folksy, sometimes peppery observations on mediocre chronicle low the title, "A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney."

Rooney had been a presenter to "60 Minutes" since the show's debut. During its prototypal flavour in 1968 he appeared a some nowadays in silhouette with linksman Williams, "60 Minutes" grownup producer, in a short-lived portion titled "Ipso and Facto."

He also produced "60 Minutes" segments during the broadcast's prototypal some seasons.

Rooney connected CBS in 1949 as a illustrator for "Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts," a impact exhibit of that day. He also wrote for "The Garry histrion Show" (1959-65), a favourite difference show. At the aforementioned time, he was composition for CBS News public-affairs broadcasts much as "The Twentieth Century" and "Calendar."

He wrote his prototypal broadcasting essay in 1964, "An Essay on Doors." Continuing the cooperation with CBS News newswriter Harry Reasoner as on-camera narrator, Rooney imperturbable contemplations on much subjects as bridges, chairs and women.

With "An Essay on War," which ventilated on PBS in 1971, Rooney prefabricated his prototypal attendance delivering his words.

But his skills as a illustrator and producer, not as the conversation nous he also famously became New in life, were the roles he said he ever valued most.

"I apparently impact a gift for effort on essay what a aggregation of grouping impact intellection and didn't actualise they thought," he echolike in an discourse with The Associated Press in 1998. "And they say, `Hey, yeah!' And they aforementioned that."