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...Presents. When la mêre was at last free of her cooking, she still had plenty to do. She had to help the older sons, Jean, 24, and André, 22, decorate the flat with red paper bells and ribbon, trim the tree with baubles, set up a little creche with an electric light above it. She had to make certain that the maid set the réveillon table with red-candled silver candelabra and the beautiful lace cloth Madame had crocheted herself 25 years ago. Then there were presents...
Gifts of tobacco were ruled acceptable if the girl is not likely to lose her sense of discrimination in the heady atmosphere of a tobacconists. "I mean, I don't want cut plug because it happens to come wrapped in fancy ribbon," said a voter earnestly, champing on the stem...
Although perhaps lacking the personal touch, a gift that will warm the cockles of any male heart is a product indigenous to Kentucky, particularly pleasant when wrapped in Christmas ribbon and bottled in bond. In short, whoever you may be, offer not badfnerle.Shown above is probably the most useless Christmas gift ever given to anyone: a wax dummy in a top hat. Everyone knows that wax dummies look better in fedoras...
...Omaha, the railroad trainmen's President A. F. Whitney spun like a pinwheel. After Harry Truman broke the railroad strike in 1946, Whitney had bellowed: "You can't make a President out of a ribbon clerk." Now he came out for Truman in '48. Said he: "My good, Christian parents taught me it is a good thing to forgive and forget...
...themselves. By then, all seven of the main gates were open, and through them streamed goggle-eyed Texans by the thousands (total attendance for the day: 212,-662-a record). Soon, amid a great blaring of sirens, Governor Beauford Jester drove up in a big open car, cut a ribbon with a pair of golden scissors and delivered a speech inflated with standard Texasity...