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...playing what role. (It was never really that pat, of course, but the idea that it was still sells like crazy at Christmas.) The counters are dominated this year as every year by sentimental, traditional themes: Nativity scenes (though cards have been getting increasingly secular), churches, children, sleigh riders...
...white) children, as well as assist their parents in various menial tasks. Children of the rich were given dancing lessons, learned how to eat, dress, walk, talk in the proper way and, not least, how to give orders and receive the lavish attention and regard of others. There were sleigh riding and ice skating in the Northern colonies, and in the South cockfighting, which was not considered unfit for the eyes of children. In fact, children all over the colonies were taken to watch the public execution of criminals -another "educational" diversion...
Died. Leroy Anderson, 66, pop composer-conductor; of lung cancer; in Woodbury, Conn. Anderson launched what became a long career in Tin Pan Alley with Sleigh Ride, in 1947, an instantly popular orchestral piece that established his relentlessly bouncy style. His 1952 Blue Tango, featuring 50 violins, became the first instrumental to top the record charts...
...later and across New York City, former Mayor John Lindsay, 53, went skating too. Not on thin ice, but at the Rockefeller Center Skating Rink where, with Co-Host Diahann Carroll, 39, he taped an ABC Christmas Eve special, refereed an ice-hockey face-off, then jumped into a sleigh with Diahann to sing (in Sunday churchgoer's baritone) It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas. Taking a break, Lindsay suddenly spun out on the ice and asked a member of the chorus to join him for a Dutch waltz. Said Diahann admiringly: "He's the kind...
Last week S. Claus was loose in the corridors where diplomats and admirals usually stride on their awesome missions. Mr. Claus, otherwise known as Sandy Fox, head of the graphics and protocol office in the East Wing, has a good jolly ho, ho, ho. He carried a string of sleigh bells over his shoulder as he jingled on his prestigious errand from the East Room to the North Portico. Sandy has been the White House Santa since the Kennedy days; he has pieced together a flawless costume and has grown a real white mustache that cannot be pulled...