Post by ۞Quaalude™۞ on Apr 9, 2012 14:10:16 GMT -5
"Mike" Wallace (May 9, 1918 – April 7, 2012) was an American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality. During his career, which spanned over sixty years, he interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers Wallace appeared as a guest on the popular radio quiz show Information Please on February 7, 1939, when he was in his last year at the University of Michigan. His first radio job was as newscaster and continuity writer for WOOD Radio in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This lasted until 1940, when he moved to WXYZ Radio in Detroit, Michigan, as an announcer. He then became a freelance radio worker in Chicago, Illinois.
Wallace enlisted in the United States Navy in 1943, and served as a communications officer during World War II on the USS Anthedon, a submarine tender. He saw no combat, but travelled to Hawaii, Australia, and Subic Bay in the Philippines, then patrolling the South China Sea, the Philippine Sea and south of Japan. Discharged in 1946, he returned to Chicago.
Early in his career, Wallace announced for the radio action shows Ned Jordan, Secret Agent[disambiguation needed ], Sky King and The Green Hornet. It is sometimes reported Wallace announced for The Lone Ranger, but Wallace said he never did.[5]
Wallace announced wrestling in Chicago in the late 1940s and early 1950s, sponsored by Tavern Pale beer.
In the late 1940s, Wallace was a staff announcer for the CBS radio network. He had displayed his comic skills when he appeared opposite Spike Jones in dialogue routines. He was also the voice of Elgin-American in their commercials on Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life.Mike Wallace was hospitalized with what was diagnosed as exhaustion. But his wife, Mary, forced him to go to a doctor, who diagnosed Wallace with clinical depression. He was prescribed an antidepressant and underwent psychotherapy. Out of a belief that it would be perceived as a weakness, Wallace kept his depression a secret until he revealed it in an interview with Bob Costas on his late-night talk show.[15] In a later interview with colleague Morley Safer, he revealed he attempted suicide circa 1986.[16]
Wallace received a pacemaker more than 20 years prior to his death and underwent triple bypass surgery in January 2008.[1] Wallace lived in a "care facility" the last several years of his life[1]In 2011, CNN host Larry King visited him and reported that he was in good spirits, but his physical condition was noticeably declining.
[edit] Death
On April 8, 2012, CBS Sunday Morning announced that Mike Wallace died at the age of 93.[17][18][19][1] On Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer reported that Wallace died in New Canaan, Connecticut, where he resided, at 8 p.m. on April 7, 2012 and he will be greatly missed
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Wallace enlisted in the United States Navy in 1943, and served as a communications officer during World War II on the USS Anthedon, a submarine tender. He saw no combat, but travelled to Hawaii, Australia, and Subic Bay in the Philippines, then patrolling the South China Sea, the Philippine Sea and south of Japan. Discharged in 1946, he returned to Chicago.
Early in his career, Wallace announced for the radio action shows Ned Jordan, Secret Agent[disambiguation needed ], Sky King and The Green Hornet. It is sometimes reported Wallace announced for The Lone Ranger, but Wallace said he never did.[5]
Wallace announced wrestling in Chicago in the late 1940s and early 1950s, sponsored by Tavern Pale beer.
In the late 1940s, Wallace was a staff announcer for the CBS radio network. He had displayed his comic skills when he appeared opposite Spike Jones in dialogue routines. He was also the voice of Elgin-American in their commercials on Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life.Mike Wallace was hospitalized with what was diagnosed as exhaustion. But his wife, Mary, forced him to go to a doctor, who diagnosed Wallace with clinical depression. He was prescribed an antidepressant and underwent psychotherapy. Out of a belief that it would be perceived as a weakness, Wallace kept his depression a secret until he revealed it in an interview with Bob Costas on his late-night talk show.[15] In a later interview with colleague Morley Safer, he revealed he attempted suicide circa 1986.[16]
Wallace received a pacemaker more than 20 years prior to his death and underwent triple bypass surgery in January 2008.[1] Wallace lived in a "care facility" the last several years of his life[1]In 2011, CNN host Larry King visited him and reported that he was in good spirits, but his physical condition was noticeably declining.
[edit] Death
On April 8, 2012, CBS Sunday Morning announced that Mike Wallace died at the age of 93.[17][18][19][1] On Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer reported that Wallace died in New Canaan, Connecticut, where he resided, at 8 p.m. on April 7, 2012 and he will be greatly missed
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