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...Lemme ride on de waindeer, mamma, I wanna go fo ride." "Look, honey," said his weary mother, tugging at his scarf, "how many times do I haf to tell ya. This is no circus, it's...well, it's Christmas...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 12/21/1951 | See Source »

...UPPER STORY, across from the Coop annex on Palmer Street, the accent is on charm. The small shop is stuffed with little gifts from all over. Every taste can be satisfied within its walls. The pastel scarf above is only one among a crowd of all types and shades. This one sells for $1.50. The pin, one of a collection of enamels by Howe, goes for only $3.75, and has earrings to match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Gift Suggestions... | 12/13/1951 | See Source »

Hours later, a ship's officer knocks. "We're missing a child, sir. A little girl." Mumbles Divine: "I saw something, but not a child, naturally. It was a scarf." The lie starts pounding in his skull, but when he finally blurts out the truth to the grieving mother, she treats it as a ruse to stop her harried search. By the time Author Steele has applied the last turn of the screw to Divine's conscience, the poor fellow is babbling insanely from a hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reactionary Old Fogy | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...down. Make her show her colors. Give her this soft, sweeping scarf as a bonus for waiting for you till you got home (or at least for being there). The COOP has come up with another fine gift for the female in your life. Pictures of Harvard landmarks are done in black and white, while the words to "With Crimson in triumph flashing" parade across a crimson and white background. An excellent gift for mother...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas: The Crimson Suggests . . . | 12/6/1951 | See Source »

...days. Two-a-day vaudeville was back at the old Palace Theater, and there was resounding applause for Judy Garland, who had brought it there. For 75 minutes on opening night Judy burned up the boards with "electric excitement," paused occasionally to wipe her brow with a bright scarf ("It isn't very ladylike, but it's very necessary"), and sang such old favorites as Somewhere, over the Rainbow and The Trolley Song. One critic predicted the show would stay a year. Wrote Critic Ward Morehouse: "I doubt if there'll be another night like it during...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Happy Days | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

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