Word: hanlon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every Yuletide since 1897, the staid New York Sun last week reprinted the famed letter-to-the-editor from eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon, and the Sun's richly sentimental reply: "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus . . ." Last week, Sun Funnyman H. I. ("Hi") Phillips jumped the gun on the editorial with a concoction of his own: a letter from a Virginia who asks the editor of Moscow's Pravda, "Is there a Santa Claus? . . . (Papa says, 'If you see it in Pravda...
EDWARD J. HANLON...
...want to isolate children in a world of make-believe," observed Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas, 58-year-old Manhattan school principal. "But with international conditions what they are, any small happiness that can be provided to counterbalance harsh realities is a fine thing." Fifty years ago, she gained fame of a sort by writing to the New York Sun and receiving in reply the much-reprinted, beamingly sentimental editorial: "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus...
Best performances of the day were turned in by Yardling Jack Fisher in the shot put when he tossed the iron ball 52 ft., 6% in., and by Ken Hanlon, whose brothers Paul and A1, followed in the footsteps of his and won the 600 in the good time...
Outstanding on the Holy Cross team are John Hanlon, star half-back on the football team, at first base, Bruno Malinowski, bruising full back and a heavy hitter in right field, and Alex Nahigian, also dangerous at the plate, in left field...