453 & 454. Beatniks KNX radio program, [1959]

Tape 453) Beatniks, KNX, [1959] (part 1 of 2) (0:02), "The Beatniks" is a KNX radio program (broadcast from Columbia Square, 1538N North El Centro Avenue, Los Angeles, California), conducted by Sidney Omarr. Herb Caen (San Francisco newspaper journalist) comments (0:53), reads "My train mourned its distance" (1:09). Kenneth Patchen[?] reading his "One who hopes" (2:58) with music. Lawrence Lipton is interviewed (4:43, 13:53) at the Gas House, Ocean Front, Venice West, Los Angeles, California. Eric "Big Daddy" Nord speaks about the "heat" from the police (5:58). A "square" speaking about the Gas House (6:38). Gertrude Stein (American novelist) speaking (9:34). T.S. Eliot speaking (11:11). Unidentifed quotes Jack Kerouac on the beat generation from his "On the road" (11:53). Warren Taylor speaking (14:58). William Millet speaking (17:26). John Thomas speaking (17:46). Julie Meredith (musician) speaking (18:01). Helene Water speaking (18:58). Fahoud Magdalini (artist) speaking (19:49). Stuart Z. Perkoff reading his "Children play among the roots of unkept trees" (21:39). ❧ Tape 454) Beatniks, KNX, [1959] (part 2 of 2): with Lawrence Lipton on the beat generation (0:02), on work (0:17), money (1:04), art (1:12), success (1:20), family (1:25), religion (1:34), publicity (6:00), on the Credit of the Beat, excerpt from "The romance of Helen Trent" (CBS Radio program) (2:42), Joseph Layton (KNX motion picture critic) speaking on Hollywood beat movies (3:42) including The Hypnotic Eye (film), Nathan Rickles (psychiatrist) speaking (6:10), Mel Weisberg (Coastlines editor) reading anti-Lipton Coastlines editorial (8:20), Kenneth Patchen (poet) reads his "Not every man has the makings of a barber" (9:18) with music, Walter Gross (Tenderly composer) speaking on poetry and jazz (12:20), Lawrence Lipton reading his "Get out your riot guns, citizens" (13:13) with music, A.S. Roberts (president, Venice Civic Union) speaking on the Gas House when it applied for an entertainment license (14:42), A.L. (Abraham Lincoln) Wirrin (American Civil Liberties Union attorney) speaking (15:18), Julie Meredith (musician) singing a ballad of petition for the Gas House in Venice West (15:57), Al Matthews (Gas House landlord) speaking (18:06), Desire Constance (actress) speaking on coffee houses (19:18), Lawrence Lipton and Julie Meredith and Eric Nord and Helene Water at the Gas House discussing sex (20:14), Bob Handy (previous Hollywood Boulevard beat bookstore owner) speaking (25:43), James Boyer May (Trace editor) speaking on learning how to write in college (26:39), Robert Kirsch (Los Angeles Times book editor) speaking (29:47), Lawrence Lipton reading his "A funky blues for all squares, creeps, and cornballs" (30:04). Commercial: Bob Richards Show (32:01).-- TIMES indicate where sections begin