Word: santas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Christmas is a good holiday. For the religious there is the renewed hope of redemption. For the others, the streets are lit up; children look forward to Santa Claus; the Salvation Army collects enough to fill soup bowls for another year; cynics have a special occasion on which they can be doubly cynical...
...Creature Was Stirring. In London, former Department Store Santa Claus T. T. Fisher-Brent complained in a letter to the Star that after one "youngster croaked in my ear his recital of wants, he soon slipped away with a big smile on his face and my wallet in his pocket...
...carolers-and then everything goes haywire. "Four bars of soap," they trill, "three cans of peas, two breakfast foods, and some toothpaste on a pear tree." Later, they launch into another holiday favorite: "Dashing through the snow in a 50-foot coupe." They stop to admire a cigarette-ad Santa Claus with a tattoo on each arm-one reading "Merry Christmas," the other "Less Tar"-and then jangle through Jingle Bells with a cash register clanking in the background...
...Music Man. Santa Claus himself could not wish for more booming jollity...
...several years the University has threatened action, and following last year's Santa Claus stunt and arrest, President James D. Stanley '59 wrote the Deans that henceforth a Lampoon board would guarantee that all amusements would be harmless and responsible. His successors, however, were until recently ignorant of his letter...