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...there is another kind of Christmas trauma that results in what might be called Santa Claustrophobia. Many a mop pet chickens out of the department store line to see Santa-the big red man with the vast white beard seems like God him self and not every adult would be in a hurry to climb onto His lap. One Victoria, B.C., housewife organized a protest when a store had Santa Claus arriving in a helicopter, only to be followed three days later by a rival store's Santa landing by parachute. Confused her children hopelessly she said, and made...
...booby roles, Mr. Chapman has been most fortunate. Mr. Lyons (Donald, is it not?) has been great before, but as the astrologically minded Foresight he has a chance to overact to perfection. This ancient of days has a small and ugly beard which just horizontally from his chin, a tottering gait, and a bottomless stock of half-completed, fluttering and totally impotent hand gestures. To which is added an unpredictable voice that shouts its superstitions in a surprising variety of registers. Mr. Abbott, actor, director, and critic, is Sir Sampson Legend, Valentino's Squire Western of a father. Occasionally...
...Yale's diminutive Bobby Mack. Until a few weeks ago Mack had been regarded as unbeatable in eastern competition, but he placed behind Hamlin in the Big Three race, and behind Hamlin and five others in the Heps. Another Ivy Leagure competitor who ran well was Cornell's Beard who placed 12th...
...Beard & the Bear...
...silver locks and hand-woven toga flying, he launched into a frantic soft-sandal jig. The Dior-dressed segment of the crowd dug it deep. But the modern beats, obviously distressed that no food and no smoking were allowed, did not get the scene at all. Said one bewildered beard to another: "I don't know what this cat is laying down, but I don't pick...