TV's Art Linkletter dies at 97

Thursday, May 27, 2010

LOS ANGELES -- Art Linkletter, who as the gently mischievous host of TV's "People Are Funny" and "House Party" in the 1950s and '60s delighted viewers with his ability to get children -- and grownups -- to say the darndest things on national television, died Wednesday. He was 97.

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