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...Clement Moore (in his famous poem A Visit from St. Nicholas*), eight tiny reindeer were enough to herald the coming of St. Nick's toy-laden sleigh. In Argentina last week, it took 20 reindeer to herald the coming of Perón's Five-Year Plan to Tierra del Fuego. The government had imported them to provide food, clothing and transportation to the 3,513 inhabitants of the wintry archipelago at the tip of South America. On arrival from Sweden, the antlered immigrants were welcomed by Minister of Marine Rear Admiral Fidel Anadon. Said Buenos Aires...
...dawn of a Minnesota winter day, goateed Dr. William F. C. Heise put on his homespun suit, wing collar and black bow tie, and was helped into his greatcoat by his wife. One of the boys helped him hitch up the horses. When the doctor set off in the sleigh, two boys went along, whipping the horses through the big drifts. It was an emergency surgery case. Operating on his patient on a farmhouse kitchen table, by the light of kerosene lamps, Dr. Heise was glad to have his rugged sons on hand as assistants. Driving home afterward, they talked...
Grandpa Kenneth Kingsblood, dentist and solid citizen of Grand Republic, Minn., had summoned the family to a conference. Ranging from oldsters to younglings, but all equally curious, they assembled "beneath the pictures of the Pilgrim Fathers and sleigh-rides and Venice, sitting on the imitation petit-point chairs, on the egg-yolk-yellow couch, on the floor, looking at one another and at souvenir ashtrays and an Album of the New York World's Fair." When they were settled, Grandpa Kingsblood informed them in a trembling voice that his son Neil had something on his mind "which he will...
...rest of Canada, has been smart enough to see that fun can also be big business. So this winter, the first big postwar season, Canada's hundreds of winter resorts are spending thousands of dollars to promote winter sports. For those who wanted them, there is still snowshoeing, sleigh and dog-team rides and tobogganing. But the real frost king is the ski business...
Young Willie White was highly conscious of belonging to Emporia's "ruling class." So it is not surprising that about a quarter of his 669-page autobiography is a nostalgic recall of the golden goodness of 19th-Century, mid-American boyhood-the swimming hole, sleigh rides, girls, Indian scares, boy fights, boy jobs...