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Entertainment icons of the 1960 s get together: Linkletter with Arthur Godfrey, Lucille Bail and Gary Morton
time soon —a point driven home when he politely
excuses himself to take a phone call to discuss a
solar power plant he is building in Nevada, only
one of several business irons he has in the fire.
“He does all the right things,” says Dr. Gary
Small, author of The Longevity Bible , who has known
Linkletter for 10 years through their work together
at the Center on Aging at the University of Cali
fornia-Los Angeles, for which Linkletter serves as
president. “He is engaged, he is physically and
mentally active, and he has a positive outlook.”
Linkletter has co-authored his own new book on
aging, Hou to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of
Your Life , with Mark Victor Hansen, the co-creator
of the famous Chicken Soup for the Soul series. When
Hansen approached Linkletter with the idea for a
book, he initially was not receptive.
“I said, ‘No thanks, Mark,'” Linkletter recalls. "‘I
have written 27 books, including Old Age is Not for
Art Linkletter with wife Lois in Los Angeles in 2006
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more to say. " But when Hansen pointed out that
baby boomers—getting older every day—needed
sage advice, Linkletter changed his mind.
Mv life has been a series of accepting chal
lenges,” he says.
Among those challenges has been the loss of two of
his five children. His son Robert died in an automobile
accident in 1980. and his 20-year-old daughter, Diane,
jumped out of the window of her kitchen apartment
under the influence of LSD in 1969.
”1 had a call immediately from Norman Vincent
Peale, my friend, my mentor,” following Diane's
death, Linkletter recalls. “He said. Art, the Lord is
calling you to help the families of America in what
is a growing epidemic."
So Linkletter walked away from television and
turned his energies to a passionate anti-drug cru
sade. He spoke at churches, on radio and TV, and
wrote the book Drugs at My Doorstep.
Linkletter currently is facing the loss of yet another
of his children. His 69-year-old son Jack has been
undergoing treatment for mantle cell lymphoma. "His
chances of living are slender,” Linkletter says. "The
Lord only lends our children to us. I have learned from
these tragedies that these experiences leave you either
enhanced or diminished as a person. My choice is to
help other people.”
A young entrepreneur
Linkletter was born out of wedlock in a small
hospital in Moose Jaw. Saskatchewan, Canada,
where he was abandoned by his biological parents
and adopted by John Linkletter. a street preacher,
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On TV’s Toast of the Town with Ed Sullivan in 1954
and his wife, Mary. They were loving parents, but
poor, living on congregational offerings. After
moving around Canada for a while, they relocated
to Lowell, Mass., and then to California.
Even as a young boy, Linkletter was a hustling, bus
tling entrepreneur with an assortment of odd jobs,
including selling lemons door to door. He worked at
various ventures noastop until he graduated from high
school—after skipping several grades—at the age of 16.
"1 wanted to go to college, but I had no money," he
says. "So I decided to see the world. 1 was very adept at
hitchhiking, so I said gixxlbye to my parents and never
lived with them again.”
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