Corpus Christi Caller-Times du lieu suivant : Corpus Christi, Texas • 73

rf 1 flT- Corpus Qgfati CsHer-Tlmei Sun Hay 8 IMS SQamDi! home the a woman scrambling over patrons at a movie theater searching for her lost purse all proving people were funny and many thought so was Linkletter KRIS-TV Channel 6 KZTV Channel 10 By BOB BARNES HOLLYWOOD Art Lint letter was reading in bed one night when the telephone rang a collect call from the South said the operator Jt all about?" asked the pajama-clad master of ceremonies and millionaire business executive All she knew was that a New Jersey shortwave station was on the line His eyebrows arched and his eyes got big and round In that way familiar to millions But his curiosity was up I took it" he recalls was a bunch of Geophysical Year scientists gotten to debating whether I was the kind of guy who would accept a collect call from the South Pole We had a good chat" WITH TV GUEST laughed during show supports eight orphans in China Korea and elsewhere under the Foster Parents plan He visits them on his many travels Linkletter hit the big time with Are Funny" Its practical jokes kept laughing but sometimes barely missed being tragic You remember a gleeful emcee whipping up susjense about cakes dropping on people a parachutist jumping over a wur-conscious city a wotn-an throwing scrawled appeals for lielp from a hotel room brash masqueraders descending on an innocent victim's Guest CAROLE WELLS television! actress who is the granddaugh- ter of Mrs Batson 1222: Seventeenth will appear as a' guest artist on "Wagon Train" 1 over KRIS-TV at 6:30 pmi Wednesday Miss Wells appears regularly on IN PRIVATE lire Linkletter never pulls a practical joke on the receiving end of plenty though Each prankster thinks he's the first to howl Are at him Everybody thinks he asked for everything he gets and Art doesn't deny it At San Diego State Teachers College Linkletter starred in swimming basketball and handball He'll be 50 on July 17 but a 200-pounder who looks like he could take car of himself in a scrap He and Lois married in 1935 have five children Jack 24 who has his own TV show Dawn 22: Pohert 17 Sharon 15 and Diane 13 Not long ago linkletter capered in the best Uncle Art fashion with four little dears aged 4 to 7 on his coast-to-eoast Party" show The 30 minutes ended tlie lights dimmed and technicians wheeled their cameras hack Above the hubbub rose the Linkletter voice we off the came the reply He whirled and put on meanest leer "All right you snarled outta here!" They thought that was pretty funny coining from Art Linkletter It was too LISTEN KRYS 1360 ON YOUR RADIO UL 3-9823 SUMMER 1 Cools fast dehumidified Fits almost any car transfers easily 12-month cr 12000-mila warranty to ART UXKLETTER Roberta Caliguiri 4 out of making $10000 out of a little company with 35 employes where I've had a part in it made some pi woe calls and been asked for advice than I get out of making $20-000 from some impersonal blue chip investment" he says THERE'S Linkletter the writer you have spent your life'in a business as ephemeral as radio and TV books are tangible evidence that done something A book is something that's there I can point to it as a summation of myself of what I am what I stand for what I believe in" Linkletter keeps things moving in his writings as on the air Once a microphone gradually slid to the floor while be ni broadcasting He followed it down talking steadily be says Injudiciously ho chose a moment while fiat on his stomach shaking with uncontrollable mirth to launch into a mortuary commercial The sponsor never got the joke Another side of Linkletter his most significant for lt shapes his whole being doesn't as readily show a father of five who's worried about young people and doing more all the time on juvenile delinquency problems of youth in America are one of our three or four biggest problems internally He's a sometime actor who feels strongly about the movie trend THINK the stuff they are putting out lor family consumption is disgraceful and thatj parents are allowing their kids to see things that are positive-! ly diabolical The worst thing I have seen along that line Is 'Butterfield a onetime foundling deserted by his parents and he TV SALES AND SERVICE I''' Experience Color TV Service UL2-1843 1531 STAPLES WASHING MACHINE AND DRYER PARTS COMPLETE STOCK ALL MAKES Standard Appliance Parts IT COST Linkletter 555 for his icebound friends to confirm what many fans suspect: That their idol's a good guy (41-camera too Don't get any ideas like most celebrities he has since been driven (o the shelter of an unlisted number Linkletter has built public image in his quarter century of show busiiwes during which he says he has had kind of love affair going on with the American public" welcomed into the living rooms of America as the tall cleancut confident emcee eternally ready to smile and quick with the quips He's known too as a good man with a needle who chuckles while his victims squirm And Linkletter'a all of that sure enough but Hut's not all of Linkletter He has other less known images all provocative THERE'S Linkletter the man who knows human nature While been watching him he has been watching you in general want to be he says are basically hopeful and good natural and optimistic They want to be cheated or disillusioned they want to believe in things" HE HATES phonies and rudeness Lots of times Linkletter is asked flow come he's always so confoundedly cheerful He says if friendly and cheerful to people re-' spond do it all the time get on an elevator where they're all staring at the floor and I'll make some remark or Joke and they'll loosen right up Yes that happened when I was unknown too People' are Just waiting If you take the initiative they'll Linkletter the business magnate- enjoy creative he says He spends as much time on business as he does on entertainment has millions invested in all kinds of enterprises from the safest to the most speculative get 10 times more kick JET CAR WASH 505 Meath Washed As Often As Desired 4814 AYERS DRIVE ALU Safer Daa guests this wash witt 1:25 Nc 1:30 Uialta Yaaag 0 Haas Party 2-00 Yaaag Dr Malaaa 0 Miliieaaira 2:30 Oar Thro Daaghtan Tfea Vardict la Yaart 2JS 0 CSS Nawa 3410 Make Roam for DiJ- 0 Brighter Day 3:15 0 Sac ret Storm 3 JO Kara a Hollywaad Jim and Haary Rackaa ora geests 0 Up of Nigfet 3:55 NBC Naan ad lefuses help from cafe driver ip Haaeesey: A tkrtt-yaar courtship la tfea Navy hospital is dimased when Heanasay marries Lt Martha Hala 9:30 0 I've Get a Secret 10:00 -Q0 News Weather 10 Roam far Orta Mam: With Amos's kalp Ccorga gets out of a South American assignment ITil Almanac 1040 TaR It ta Graacha: Fabian tries ta prava ha is a serious actor 10:45 Toaight Show: Marv Griffin will ha hast (Color) 10:50 Faay hprsss 11:20 Paapls's ClMica 11:25 News 11:30 Taaighr Shaw (Color) 11:52 0 SigeOfF G3CM3C3 OW igkrtm uiwni Up to 24 months wr STINSON GARAGE 302 CHAPARRAL TU4-771 3 4:00 Maria a i a a a Senate Siag" atari Kay KaadaB 03 Pater Gaaa 12:00 Sign Off (13S 'V- A.