DOI: 10.25549/lipton-c108-277
title: 155. Beatniks KNX radio program, [1960?]; Linkletter show, [1959?]; Viewpoint TV interview of Lipton by Stout, [1959?]

description: Tape 155, side 1) The Linkletter Show (aka Art Linkletters' House Party), CBS (television show), [1959?] [incomplete] (0:02): Jack Slattery interviews Robert Timm (pilot) and John Cook (pilot), who broke the flight endurance record with a 64 day flight (1958 December 4 to 1959 February 7) (0:02) re Damon Runyon Cancer Foundation. ❧ Commercial: Arthur Godfrey time (radio show) (0:20). ❧ The Beatniks (radio program), KNX, CBS Radio (Los Angeles) (broadcast from Columbia Square, 1538N North El Centro Avenue, Los Angeles, California), hosted by Sidney Omarr, [1960?] (0:15). Lawrence Lipton reads his poem "Upbeat, downbeat, offbeat" (1:07) with music, Herb Caen (San Francisco newspaper journalist) comments (1:39), reads "My train mourned its distance" (1:52), Kenneth Patchen[?] reading his "One who hopes" (3:46) with music, Lawrence Lipton is interviewed (5:31, 9:16, 14:40, 23:46, 29:43, 49:36) at the Gas House, Ocean Front, Venice West, Los Angeles, California. Eric "Big Daddy" Nord speaking about the "heat" from the police (6:48), a "square" speaking about the Gas House (7:29), Gertrude Stein (American novelist) speaking (10:23), unidentified male quoting T.S. Eliot (12:02), unidentifed male quotes Jack Kerouac on the beat generation from his "On the road" (12:43), Warren Taylor speaking (15:50), William Millet speaking (18:18), John Thomas speaking (18:38), Julie Meredith (musician) speaking (18:52), Helene Water speaking (19:50), Fahoud Magdalini (artist) speaking (20:40). Stuart Z. Perkoff reading his "Children play among the roots of unkept trees" (22:31), excerpt from  "The romance of Helen Trent" (radio program), CBS Radio (26:17), Joseph Layton (KNX motion picture critic) speaking on Hollywood beat movies (27:21), Nathan Rickles (psychiatrist) speaking (29:53), Mel Weisberg (Coastlines editor) reading anti-Lipton Coastlines editorial (32:22), Kenneth Patchen (poet) reads his "Not every man has the makings of a barber" (33:21) with music, Walter Gross (Tenderly composer) speaking on poetry and jazz (36:31), Lawrence Lipton reading his "Get out your riot guns, citizens" (37:27) with music, A.S. Roberts (president, Venice Civic Union) speaking on the Gas House when it applied for an entertainment license (39:00), A.L. (Abraham Lincoln) Wirrin (American Civil Liberties Union attorney) speaking (39:38), Julie Meredith (musician) singing a ballad of petition for the Gas House in Venice West (40:19), Al Matthews (landlord) speaking (42:33), Desire Constance (actress) speaking on coffee houses (43:49), Lawrence Lipton and Julie Meredith and Eric Nord and Helene Water at the Gas House discussing sex (44:47), Bob Handy (previous Hollywood Boulevard beat bookstore owner) speaking (50:29), James Boyer May (Trace editor) speaking on learning how to write in college (51:27), Robert Kirsch (Los Angeles Times book editor) speaking (54:44), Lawrence Lipton reading his "A funky blues for all squares, creeps, and cornballs" (55:01). Commercial: Bob Richards Show (57:04). ❧ The Linkletter Show (aka Art Linkletters' House Party), CBS (television show), [1959?] [incomplete] (57:12): Jack Slattery interviews children: Steven Cruz (on food, Texas, England, impersonation of Jimmy Durante), Della Dean (on eating habits, her father in the Airforce, Arkansas, Holland, the ideal husband, growing too quickly). ❧ Tape 155, side 2): The Linkletter Show (aka Art Linkletters' House Party), CBS (television show), [1959?] [incomplete] (0:02): Jack Slattery interviews Robert Timm (pilot) and John Cook (pilot), who broke the flight endurance record with a 64 day flight (1958 December 4 to 1959 February 7). Commercial: Mum Cream deodorant (5:05), what members of the audience (Mrs. Leon Dumbrum, Mrs. Earl Faland, Vic Moriana) really think of their neighbors (6:05). Commercial: Q-Tips cotton swabs, (9:05), McGuffy Readers (10:06). ❧ CBS News, KNX-TV channel 2 Los Angeles (television show), 1959 September 28 (10:17): Howard K. Smith will report on Nikita Khruschev and Dwight Eisenhower Camp David talks (10:21), U.S. Grand Prix (10:39). ❧ "Viewpoint" (television program), KNXT, with host Bill Stout, on the beat generation (10:52, 12:57, 26:16, 39:58), unidentified male reading Kenneth Patchen's poem: "O great blind horses" (11:20), interview of Lawrence Lipton on dedicated poverty, honorifics, work ethic, Thomas Carlyle, deadbeats, egocentric, puritan tradition, Mediterrenean of America, excess bathing, corrupt organized religion, the smell of people, Antaeus, Hercules, beards, clothing, Nikita Khruschev, Grandma Moses, Dwight Eisenhower, good vs. bad taste, Lipton's book The Holy Barbarians, beat literature, Edgar Lee Masters (poet), Carl Sandburg (poet), Stuart Perkoff (poet), Charles Foster (writer), Theodore Dreiser (writer), making money, success, sex, marriage, extramarital relations, Kenneth Rexroth, lies, Saint Ike (Eisenhower), Mick the Knife (Richard Nixon), disaffiliation, atomic annihilation, Gas House entertainment permit hearings, Franklin Roosevelt (president), A.L. (Abraham Lincoln) Wirrin (attorney), California will be the future; Stout quotes Samuel Johnson (writer) and Christopher Fry (playwrite). Commercial: Dreyfus Fund investments (11:52), Karen Pendleton and Cobe O'Brian on a new orthopaedic hospital (25:09), Dodgers baseball (38:45), San Diego Zoo (38:59). -- TIMES indicate where sections begin.