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Long before he was an award-winning journalist, Mike Wallace was a radio announcer and actor. The longtime correspondent for\\xa060 Minutes\\xa0had a stint as a radio crime solver when he starred as Lt. Lou Kagel, a New York cop who investigated Crime on the Waterfront. Though the show didn\\u2019t materialize into a series, both audition recordings survive and give us the chance to hear the celebrated newsman in a dramatic detective role. We\\u2019ll hear the two audition recordings from February 24 and March 1, 1949.