Mike Wallace
American broadcast journalist, host of the hard-edged interview program Night Beat (and later a fixture of CBS's 60 Minutes). His 1957–58 interviews with Mailer (58.2, 58.7) are, in Lennon's phrase, "the first of several antagonistic interviews" between the two.
Mike Wallace interviewed Mailer on his Night Beat program (5 March 1957); excerpts ran in the New York Post in July 1958 (58.2) and in the book Mike Wallace Asks (58.7). The relationship was combative and recurs in the register (see 73.19, 77.7).
Related pages
- 1958 | Mike Wallace Asks: Norman Mailer | Norman Mailer (in Mike Wallace Asks)
- Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots (77.7)