Word: christmases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What does one give a bishop for Christmas? Or a Presbyterian seminarian? Or a nun? The advertising pages of denominational publications are full of suggestions. In this world of black and white, too, eyes are peeled for bargains ("Close-Out-BLACK SUITS-Only 52 Available"), and alert to style ("Nuns...
CHRISTMAS-CARD BOOM will break all records this year, says the National Association of Greeting Card Publishers, who predict a gross of $175 million on 2 billion cards.
Were it not for the Christmas spirit, U.S. publishing would be a far less prosperous enterprise than it is. This year the trade is ready once again for the growing number of people whose gift problems seem to be most easily resolved by handsome, outsize volumes, preferably loaded with pictures...
A TREASURY OF CHRISTMAS SONGS AND CAROLS, edited by Henry W. Simon (242 pp.; Houghton Mifflin; $4.95), brings together in words and music the old British and U.S. favorites, a pleasing selection from foreign countries, and songs for children.
Aside from the patent absurdity of considering classes the prime feature of a university, and the sheer impracticability of any preventative measure having to do with anyone in the true holiday spirit, there is another, more pertinent objection to these measures, whatever scandalous form they may take. One wonders what...