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...equipment is one pillow (craftily placed), one board (stuck on plenty tight), one uniform (sweatproof), and guts (to face 200 kids a day). The pay is a base scale of $1.00 an hour. The hours are short. The job, for eight Harvard men, is that of impersonating Santa Claus...

Author: By Jack Spratte, | Title: Harvard Men Work as Santas in Local Stores | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

Working with Conley at Filene's are a BU student who takes the morning shift in the gift department, using the same uniform and pillow as Conley, and a 300 pound man in the window who uses no pillow...

Author: By Jack Spratte, | Title: Harvard Men Work as Santas in Local Stores | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

...Grant stores in Arlington and Cambridge. They received no training--just a suit and a beard. Dwight B. Heath '52, who handles Arlington, has a little trouble making the weight; he is 5 ft. 10 in. tall and weighs 130 pounds, but the ever-useful pillow takes care of that...

Author: By Jack Spratte, | Title: Harvard Men Work as Santas in Local Stores | 12/14/1948 | See Source »

...King's doctors believe they have caught the illness at an early stage. He is up & around Buckingham Palace every day, limping slightly but not using a cane or crutch; usually he rests his foot on a pillow while working. Main medical treatment is described as an electric apparatus (which stimulates circulation), fitted around the thigh. Other possible treatments: rest in bed if there is pain; hot & cold baths; heat; drugs that dilate the arteries; a nerve-cutting operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: His Majesty's Foot | 12/6/1948 | See Source »

Sunlight struck Vag full in the face and chased him under a pillow. Groping for air, he edged out from under his feathery bunker only to meet the day again. He spun and twisted his way under the sheets but they rolled with him; the light searched out his eyelids, wrestled with them and forced them open. Vag was awake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/3/1948 | See Source »

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