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Special cops were on duty to untie traffic snarls converging on a San Fernando Valley mansion near Hollywood. The Yuletide cynosure: a rooftop Santa Claus, made of bamboo, hammering away at a wrought-iron piano garnished with a twinkly candelabra, while loudspeakers blared hi-fi recordings of the schmalziest music on the far side of Bethlehem. Beamed the spectacle's beamish mastermind, Liberace: "I just love Christmas...
...goofy juvenile called All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth (1948), and the pixies took over. The following year, all the kiddie stars were lisping the lyrics of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and 1952 brought the coyest Christmas hit, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. This year's subadolescent hit, if any, is slow to show, but according to both M-G-M and Columbia, a number called Nuttin' for Christmas is showing frightening signs of life. Sample lyrics, usually sung in a piercing whine...
...Nikita, there is a Santa Claus...
Biggest sellers: religious cards, which have climbed from 5% of the market in 1940 to nearly 25% this year; Santa Claus, who was No 3 last year, has tumbled down the chimney to No. 8 spot...
...Southern or Western wanderer who must traverse great distances to reach his festive home. For, unless the University allows students more holiday time before Christmas than it has of late, the young gentleman from the hinterlands would be hard put to reach home before the department store Santa Claus closes up shop...