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| | Mike Wallace at Hollywood.com |
 | | The craggy Wallace, wizened to the point of razor-sharpness, paired up with the younger, less flamboyant Morley Safer (who joined the show in 1970 when Reasoner left), became the Batman and Robin of investigative TV reporting, their confrontational interview style making them the Heckle and Jeckle of what wags dubbed "ambush journalism". |
 | | To be sure, Wallace often brought a rueful wit to his work (as in responses to his perennially jet-fl hair), and his forceful, organized persona was at least as likable as it was intimidating. |
 | | The winner of countless Emmys and a regular host and guest on many TV documentary series and specials, the incisive, penetrating Wallace was for half a century as intelligent as he was traditional, as entertaining as he was enlightening. |
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