Fastmachines.com (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
CONCORD, N.C. – Kyle Busch continued his domination of the NASCAR season at Lowe’s Motor Speedway's Carquest Auto Parts 300 Saturday evening, leading the most laps in the race and winning under caution when a green-white-checker finish got interrupted by Mike Wallace’s crash on the last lap. Busch led 86 ...
AskPatty - Automotive Advice For Wo (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Chrissy Wallace’s NASCAR debut a few weeks ago at Martinsville Speedway went quite smashingly. The 19-year-old daughter of driver Mike Wallace climbed behind the wheel in the Kroger 250, and looked like she’d been driving in the Craftsman Truck Series...
LVHRD.ORG (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
Dali puts it down. Invent an artistic movement and say whatever the hell you want. The University of Texas at Austin cracked open the vault, and black & white interviews full of communists, Union leaders, and Parliament Lights came tumbling out. The Mike Wallace Interview ran from 1957 - 60, and during that time, Wallace asked sharp, intelligently [...]
Finestkind Clinic and fish market (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
MysteriousUniverse blog relates that Mike Wallace and CBS censored an interview about UFO's back in the 1950's... The part they censored? When he admitted he testified before a Congressional Subcommittee... The interview and transcript is now on line , and his book is here ---- My impression of UFO's is about the same as Virgin Mary sitings: 99.9% are fake or imagination gone wild, but a few cases...
YID With LID (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
Remember when 60 Minutes used to matter? When I was growing up the granddaddy of all TV News Magazines was a must watch, today it is simply the program on after football. Over the years the programs correspondents began to read their own news clippings and began to believe that they not only reported the news but they could create it also. Maybe it started when Mike Wallace worked so hard to make terrorists...
The Anniston Star Online (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
NEW YORK — Here is a familiar sight: Mike Wallace on camera. He's grilling Henry Kissinger on 'the immediate issue that will decide the fate of our freedom, certainly — and possibly even of our survival.' But hold on: The video images are black and white, and both Wallace and Kissinger look awfully young.
Notes from the Lounge (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
The University of Texas at Austin has recently made available online the video archives of the old Mike Wallace Interview (complete with Wallace touting the joys of the Parliaments he’s chain smoking throughout). I was especially fascinated by this interview with Salvador Dalí. Oddly, its when Dalí is most cogent and illuminating that Wallace seems [...]
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
NEW YORK - Here is a familiar sight: Mike Wallace on camera. He's interrogating Henry Kissinger on "the immediate issue that will decide the fate of our freedom, certainly - and possibly even of our survival."
The Laughorist (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
You people want evidence as to how things start falling apart (like a clock going limp) without proper punctuation? Well, take this sentence, in today's Post-Standard of Syracuse, New York, in an article it carried by one Frazier Moore, of The Associated Press: Fifty years ago this month, viewers saw [Mike] Wallace interview Israeli statesman Abba Eban, influential theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, actress-singer...
SyriaComment (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Published by Alex, The Jews of SyriaBy Robert TuttleOriginally Published by Syria CommentOctober 24, 2005 Robert Tuttle is a freelance writer living in New York. He was a Fulbright student in Syria from 1994 to 1997 and speaks Arabic. The story on Syria's Jews was written as a master's project for Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. [...]
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
A classic Mike Wallace interview: Henry Kissinger's 1958 support of the concept of "limited war" against the Soviet Union. This passage can't help but leap out fifty years later: We must have the capability to react to Soviet threats at...
io9 (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
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Blog Town, PDX (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
I've recently been introduced to the early work of TV interviewer Mike Wallace (who most of us know from 60 Minutes ), but whose show The Mike Wallace Interview ran from 1957 to 1960. You can download episodes of the show from 1957-8 at the University of Texas' website . And they really are fascinating. Interviewees (clockwise from top left) include Texas oil millionaire Glenn McCarthy, Kirk Douglas,...
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
By THE MIKE WALLACE INTERVIEW 3/8/57 Former Marine Air Corps Major Donald Keyhoe, director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, conducted an investigation of the existence of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). Keyhoe talks to Wallace about the United States military, reports of UFO sightings, the various theories explaining UFOs, government cover-ups, and the
Signal vs. Noise (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
Architecture fans will enjoy these two Charlie Rose interviews. Philip Johnson at 90: Philip Johnson at 95: And for those who haven’t seen it, you must watch the two 1957 Mike Wallace interviews with the 88 year old Frank Lloyd Wright. They just don’t make people like FLW anymore. A paragon of confidence, a wellspring of opinion. What a treasure.
