Article: Aging with Dignity

So, at age 94, Art Linkletter is in his 9th decade! No one seemed to have trouble with the 1900s being the 20th century. Except for 1999, of course, when so many people insisted that that was the last year of the 20th century. No one could tell me though which century only had 99 years or why 999 years make a millenium.
Why don't journalists (editors especially) take a remedial course in grammar school arithmetic so they can catch these things?

About a year after completing my service in the Army of Occupation of Germany after WWII, I became a Math Teacher. The Algebra textbook issued for my classes had an exercise question which erroneously assumed that calendar year names, e.g., 6 BC, 1666 AD, were of the same kind as the integer points on the "number line;" having a zero. Well, of course, it was several hundreds of years after the mistaken attribution of the date of birth of Jesus of Nazareth that anyone started counting calendar years from such a birth year.
And there was no year that anyone whatsoever called the "zero year." So the first century AD /C.E. ("common era") ran from the year 1 AD/CE through the year 99, not including the first day of the year 100. Remember that it would not have been called the year 100 for several centuries to come.

In the photo of Art on the beach circa 1955, is he not holding a cell phone in his left hand?

Apparently this photo has been altered for some reason because I know they didn't have cell phones then.

I would like to know who altered it and why? I can't believe the magazine would have done it intentionally unless he was originally holding something else that it thought would be inappropriate, such as a cigarette.

Did Mr. Linkletter submit it as altered and the magazine didn't notice it, or did but still ran it that way at his request?

I do hope and believe the magazine should give an explanation in a future issue.

I believe Art Linkletter is holding a small transistor radio to his ear.

Yes, I emailed an editor also who told me that after posting my message here. I should've done that first.