Once Art Linkletter was ubiquitous. Now he’s forgotten, save by senior citizens and those who, like me, are inching slowly but surely toward the sixtieth meridian. Such is fame in the age of television.
For those with very long memories, here’s the opening segment of a 1965 episode of House Party, Linkletter’s long-lived CBS daytime series–it ran on radio from 1945 to 1967 and on TV from 1952 to 1969–in which he interviews Lucille Ball:
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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