There is nothing like a fresh dose of new American citizens to remind you how fortunate you are and how easy it is to take this country for granted. On our trip to the

Art Linkletter, the genial host who parlayed his talent for the ad-libbed interview into two of television’s longest-running shows, “People Are Funny” and “House Party,” in the 1950s and 1960s, died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles...