Word: reindeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pictured Christmas as it used to be in the Old World, with huge copies of German, Austrian and Italian toys. In Washington, Woodward & Lothrop brought to life The Night Before Christmas, with sleeping children, animated sugar plums, Santa and his prancing steeds. In Denver, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer wept giant tears at Daniels and Fisher Stores Co., and the May Department Stores Co. built Santa's toy factory for the city's youngsters. At Detroit's J. L. Hudson Co., a delightful doll named Christmas Carol clutched a candy-striped Teddy bear on her visit...
Pyramid of the People. Half the people of the Soviet Union are Great Russians; the rest, a score of races, speak 200 different tongues and dialects. There are Tartar horsemen unchanged since Genghis Khan, primitive Yakhuts, Samoyed reindeer herders, Mongol tractor drivers and Cossack commissars. There are 20 million Moslems in the U.S.S.R. All of these diverse and frequently antagonistic peoples are ruled by the Soviet elite: some 50,000 ministers, managers, army officers and intellectuals, who are more removed from the people than were the Czar's nobility...
...Cartoonist Rowland Emett's famed rickety railways in Punch; and "Sky," in which a pair of crescent moons dance around a corona-circled sun and lesser heavenly bodies ($3.95 each, produced by Pace Design Studios, Chicago). ¶Seasonal groups, such as "Santa," featuring a robust St. Nick, a reindeer and a star-carrying angel, all suspended from a crescent moon; and "Spring," a versatile, pastel menage of rabbits, flowers, birds and butterflies ($1 and $1.95, Scamanda Mobiles, Manhattan). ¶Decorative abstractions, such as Sculptor Marechal Brown's "Tapered Quills," looking like giant buffalo teeth strung on an Indian...
...there was the annual off-season mood of jingle bells and Santa Claus. Reason : his four-man staff was busy working on this year's Christmas card de signs for gift subscriptions to TIME Inc. magazines. To help the mood, Gangel had tacked sprigs of holly, some toy reindeer and a couple of pine cones above the drawing boards to divert his artists from thoughts of the latest baseball score, the nearest golf course, or caricatures of the boss...
Valley of the Eagles--An unusual spectacle filmed in Lapland, featuring killer eagles and reindeer stampeding over mountain cliffs. At the Metropolitan...