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Article: The Insider; Mike Wallace `Minutes'IA.(TV Currents)(Mike Wallace will retire from "60 Minutes")(Biography)
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- TelevisionWeek
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- March 20, 2006
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Byline: Michele Greppi
Others have beat The Insider to the serious odes to Mike Wallace-the "60 Minutes'' interrogator who inspired the legend that the scariest words in the English language are "Mike Wallace is here''-and the hole that will be left in the art, and soundtrack, of TV journalism when he assumes CBS News correspondent emeritus status at the end of this TV season.
So The Insider will share less-formal highlights from her conversation with Mr. Wallace last week after the long-tireless man-the man who, at the age of 87, still has the perfect pipes for TV news-announced his plans to retire.
On how he and wife Mary Yates Wallace are ...