DOI: 10.25549/lipton-c108-81
title: 127. Lew Irwin reports, 1959-12-02, 1959-12-07; Alexander King, 1959-12-08

description: Tape 127, side 1) Lew Irwin Reports, television broadcast, KABC Channel 7 (Los Angeles), 1959 December 2 (0:02, 15:17): Dwight Eisenhower trip, peace, health, steel dispute and birth control (John Edwards, reporter), James Pike (bishop) (1:20); New York governor Nelson Rockefeller campaign (6:54); Johnny Ray acquital on morals charge, Detroit, Michigan (7:09); Donald Kinsman, serial killer, arrested, California (7:18); Frankie Carbo (boxing czar) arraigned, Los Angeles, California, for theft from welterweight boxer Don Jordan (7:39); Wilfred Knapp (policeman) wounded in shooting with Walter McNeal, Gardena, California (8:05); Margarethe Bertelson, 1960 Tournament of Roses Queen, Pasadena, California (8:18); weather (8:30); Walt Whitman and Ezra Pound are too smutty to be read by students at Venice High School, California, Florence Russell (English teacher, Venice High School), Mrs. Theodor Herin (mother), Roger Arnberg (city attorney), Charles Smoot (Board of Education member), A.J. Gray (minister), Omar Norris (minister), A.S. Roberts (president, Venice Civic Union), Walter Larsh (principle, Venice High School), Lawrence Lipton (beatnik writer) (9:44). Commercials: Snug denture cushions (0:10), Wrigley's Spearmint gum (5:53), Revere 8-mm movie camera viewfinder, lens and picture automatic power zoom (8:41), Bayer Aspirin (14:16). ❧ Lew Irwin reports, television broadcast, KABC Channel 7 (Los Angeles), 1959 December 7 (15:28): protest to reinstate Walt Whitman and Ezra Pound to the English curriculum of Venice High School, Wilbur Yerger (president, Pacific Park Democratic Club), Walter Larsh (principle, Venice High School), Florence Russell (English teacher, Venice High School), Ellis Jarvis (school superintendent), Mary Tinglov (Board of Education member). ❧ Tape 127, side 1) Alexander King (humorist), television program, KHJ Channel 9, 1959 December 8, 8:00 p.m. (21:36, 30:14, 43:44), worked for Mr. Intsy on Stage Magazine, wife Margie and and King talk about King's notes, feeding Christians to Lions as entertainment, underhanded realtor, Mr. Shiftel and the best and worst things that happened that week, Nelson Rockefeller on taxes, Dore Schary (script and director) movie Lonelyhearts written by Nathaniel West, Harold McMillan (British prime minister) and his old-age pension fund, a bigamist buying a ring, little old lady bank robber, exploitation of products by young women on television, The Music Man musical, snare drumming, singing Seventy-six Trombones, France, the beat generation, Lolita, E.M. Forester's Two Cheers for Democracy, Sophocles, excerpt from Algernon Charles Swinburne's poem "The garden of Proserpine" (34:27), the lost generation, excerpt from T.S. Eliot's poem "Portrait of a lady" (35:06) [incomplete], Truman Capote (novelist) on beat poetry, Robert Frost (poet), Wanda Landowska (harpsichordist), Leo Tolstoy (novelist), winter sleigh ride, getting on television, Jack Paar Show, Mercury Theatre, publicity, quiz programs, obscure trivia, masters of ceremony, James McNeill Whistler's book The Ten O'clock Lecture, Oscar Wilde (poet), fashionable art, anti-human modern furniture, explains King's paintings "The wonder child", "The Immigrants", customs, Peter Altenberg (writer), longings, how not to enjoy literature: see a movie of a great book, Robinson Crusoe (book and film), The Brothers Karamazov (book and film), King is never the hero of his own stories, living in the ruins of Tunis in north Africa, Dr. Kildare (movies and television shows), having a baby, pornography is a matter of geography, Miguel[?] Covarrubias (artist), Georg Antheil (composer), bribery. Commercial: Albers Flapjack mix (29:14), Fleischmann's corn oil margerine (42:41), Securities and Exchange Commission (49:32). ❧ Tape 127, side 2) Alexander King (humorist), television program (continued), KHJ Channel 9, 1959 December 8, 8:00 p.m. (0:50): Ferenc Molnár (playwrite) in America, writing for radio, soldiers fraternization, court-martial, writing stage direction, drug addition hospital in Lexington in Kentucky, jazz, leave them laughing vs. thinking vs. feeling, Caradoc Evans (writer), Wales, poverty, a popular preacher, . Commercials: Yvonne De Carlo movie "Sea Devils" (0:02, 11:53), Debbie Reynolds for Christmas Seals to fight tuberculosis (0:07), next week's Alexander King show (11:27). ❧ Studio recording session of popular vocal music "Just a little more waiting" (Walter Clarke, music, and Mae Clarke, lyrics) (12:04, 13:35, 14:04, 14:48); "Roll on, little dogies" (spiritual) (15:51, 16:03); "Steal away to Jesus" (spiritual) (18:19, 20:43, 21:13). -- TIMES indicate where sections begin.