Sunday, April 08, 2012

RIP: broadcasting legend Mike Wallace

RIP: broadcasting legend Mike Wallace

Talk about rollin' along like ol' man river. Mike Wallace was older than my parents, who lived long lives and passed away long ago. He was already a middle aged man when I was in elementary school. Although I rarely saw him on TV, I often read about him in my MAD magazines, which invariably caricatured him browbeating somebody over some trivial matter on his NY-based interview program, Night Beat, while dangling an ubiquitous cigarette in one hand. In addition to smoking during his interviews, Wallace frequently did cigarette commercials. For a guy so long associated with the tobacco industry, he obviously had a pretty healthy set of lungs to live so long.

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