"Comfort the afflicted. Afflict the comfortable."
It was a guiding principal of CBS's Mike Wallace, who died this weekend at the age of 93. But did you know that before Wallace was holding feet to the fire, he hosted a superhero radio show, sang on television and hawked something call Golden Fluffo? Check out this video!
Of course, now Wallace is best known as a TV journalist who was "equally at home questioning con men, celebrities and chiefs of state", as we hear in this interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep.
UPDATE: And thanks to NPR's Jeff Brady for offering this video, which makes it abundantly clear how times have changed in journalism. No way would our interviews start this way today...
Photo Credit: Peter Freed/AP
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