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...sorry," said the doctor to Adrien. "She does not know you any more." Adrien stared and stared, then he shuffled away, his legs moving uncertainly, his hands shaking, his face drawn and haggard. The department store manager regretfully allowed him to quit, got a new man to play Santa Claus. Children clambered obediently to his lap, and business went on as usual. But, from time to time, a palsied old man with a white beard could be seen peering anxiously in the store window only to shuffle away with head bent. A salesgirl thought she recognized him, but she could...
Across the U.S. last week, air waves, nurseries and barrooms echoed with a song called / Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. To a tune that is basically old reliable corn syrup, with occasional chorus and chime effects added, it tells the story of a child who does some Christmas Eve snooping when he (she) should have been asleep. Nothing else in the lyrics is quite up to the title-line. Sample...
Jimmy is brighter than the boy in I Saw Mommy, etc. He knows who Santa Claus is. But even Jimmy was surprised by the success of the song. "I like it personally," he says, "but I didn't think anyone would...
...week proudly reported that the number of Britons who have invited U.S. troops to share their family Christmas dinners already far outnumbers the troops available. G.I.s at Mildenhall antiaircraft base are busily raising $3,000 to give a party of their own for local British kids, during which Santa Claus will arrive by helicopter...
...work in Germany, and I am convinced that after a successful restoration of the social and economic conditions in both Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein Germany is quite capable of dealing with people that "still look back on the day of Hitler with the stirring military parades." --CLAUS D. MAASS...