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"It was a hundred-mile trip, and all the way I had stars in my eyes. My first job interview. Was I ready for it? Could it possibly happen to me? When I found seventy-five other guys wanted the job as much as I did, and were all being auditioned before a choice would be made, I calmed down a little. The chief announcer put me through my paces, was swell to me, but I had to go back to the camp not knowing whether I had won or failed, the stars dulling a little more every hour of every day. Three days later, I got another telegram, this time telling me the job was mine. I did newscasts, a little acting, a little 'selling' of sponsors' products, a little writing, a little of everything required around a local radio station. With three years out later, for the Navy, that was the beginning of ten years of announcing and miscellaneous chores. I know now it was too long to spend that way." Mike had begun his radio career at $20 a week. Nine months later he was up to $50. He went to Detroit and almost tripled that within a year. In Chicago, he doubled his Detroit salary, and that figure rose steadily to a four-figure check. "You get on the trail of money after a while," is how he feels about it now. "You forget the things you started out to do. Not only in my business does this happen, but in other businesses. Lots of young fellows go off this way, and lots of wives like Buffie help to get them back on the right track. I happened to have a good voice for radio — what we call 'a good set of pipes' — so I moved up fast. Then Buffie came along and saw what I was doing to myself. She got me out of it." Buff — who was born Patrizia Cobb Chapman, daughter of musician-writer Frank Chapman and writer Elizabeth Cobb, and granddaughter of writer-humorist Irvin S. Cobb — was a young lady of vision and determination, particularly where someone she loved was concerned. That someone being Mike, she turned all her energies to making him see the light. "It was a case of my being putty in the hands of my wife!" he says. "I would have done anything to please her, but it was the other way around. It was she who was trying to make me happy. She said I didn't fully appreciate my responsibilities as an intelligent young man, or I wouldn't be wasting my talents. She said that just reading other people's words was too anonymous and that my own personality was completely submerged. She said I should be writing and producing and saying my own words on radio. And she never stopped telling me so, until I began to remember that was exactly the way I had intended things to be." After they were married, Buff had decided to stay home and be a housewife and Mike's guiding genius from afar, but she was too energetic, too interested, too sure that their teamwork required her closer presence. Neither of them wanted to see her go back into the theatre, with different hours from Mike's. So they did a husband-and-wife midnight radio show from the Chez Paree, a popular Chicago night spot, and their own popularity as a team increased with each broadcast. It was the beginning of Mike's chance to do informal interviews, to talk without any script, to plan a show, to be himself. About six months after they started at the Chez Paree, a couple of fellows from CBS in New York talked to Mike about a job there as an announcer. If Mike had not turned it down, Buff would have. It was tempting, too, because she wanted to live in New York more than anything else in the world right then. She still does. She got there, when — after they were at the Chez Paree for almost a year — CBS again approached Mike about a New York job, this time one he wanted with a contract he liked. The first job for Mike under his new contract was emceeing a program called All Around The Town. He helped with the planning, took viewers on tours of the city via their television sets. He interviewed people who had interesting stories to tell about the places that were televised. He had to think fast on his feet to make all this come alive to the stay-at-homes who watched, and he had the time of his life. When Buff joined him on the program, they both did. In the meantime, they found an attrac tive apartment overlooking the East River, fixed it up with some prized possessions of each — which they had already pooled — and some new things they had fun buying, and let a Siamese cat named Valentine queen over the place. (When Val departed this life for greener catnip and softer cushions, Mike replaced her with Cassandra and Clyde on Buffie's birthday.) When Around The Town left the air, the Mike And Buff show took its place. This one had a panel of experts on each broadcast, and the broadcasts covered practically every subject under the sun. If other opinions grew too lukewarm, Buff's never did — although, happily, she has a way of expressing them which starts controversy without seeming to make anybody too mad. If Buff's controversial faculties happened to fall below par any day, Mike could be counted on to remedy the deficiency. Neither's ideas being a rubber stamp of the other's — or of anyone else's — it was a lively half-hour of television. Viewers who were used to the "Yes, my dear" husband-and-wife programs sometimes wrote letters to Buff beginning: "No woman has a right to be as opinionated as you are." Or, to Mike: "Wouldn't it be polite to let your wife speak her mind once in a while?" Lots of letters were complimentary to both, however. As a team, they covered the Presidential conventions and the Inauguration. Separately, they each did dramatic shows, Tales Of The City for Buff, Suspense for Mike. This season, Mike began a new daily panel show, I'll Buy That. At this writing, the panel consists of Vanessa Brown, Audrey Meadows, Hans Conried and Al bert Moorehead. Buff was on the panel of last summer's Masquerade Party. Along with his TV show, Mike started a brand-new radio program last October for CBS. It's called Stage Struck and it gets its name from the premise that everybody is — at least, a little. "So we take people backstage with us, to interview famous stars right in their dressing rooms, and to hear the actual sounds and the excitement of the theatre. The cues, the curtain going up, the music, the laughter, the applause. The backstage stories that Broadway knows but ones that don't usually filter through to the whole country. The color and feel of the legitimate theatre, transmitted magically to every little house in every little village, wherever radio reaches." Now, with Buffie standing right there next to him — or slightly behind, to give him a little shove now and then — Mike Wallace is doing the things he started out to do when he was dreaming those dreams of show business back at the University of Michigan. In the back of his mind, in the back of Buff's mind, there are millions of things to be done — exciting wonderful things such as youth can only dream of — the kind of things only a wife's encouragement and a wife's determination can help accomplish. That's why Mike can say with a smile: "What marriage can do for a guy!"