Art Linkletter

From Randy Dotinga, of the North County Times (San Diego/Riverside) comes this awesome Art Linkletter tidbit...

"Art Linkletter was best known as a kindly TV host who coaxed the "darndest things" out of kids. But back in the 1930s, he was a radio host in San Diego, just out of college, and he was a naughty, naughty boy. For one, he faked his play-by-play of the Naval Fleet coming into San Diego during a nationwide broadcast. It was delayed by fog, but he had a show to do. So he just made stuff up. For another, he was a dirty young man. As he worked a late shift at a radio studio in downtown San Diego, he'd watch sailors and their lady friends entertain each other through the windows of a nearby hotel. Sometimes he'd get so distracted he'd forget to change the record. Or if he was especially entranced by a performance, he'd put on a long-playing classical selection to allow uninterrupted viewing. The best part of these stories: Linkletter happily admitted to them."