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...Longfellow in 1864, many a doubt would come to the U.S. as it celebrated Christmas of 1941. Nevertheless, parents would work late into the night trimming the trees until the branches dripped tinsel, stars, iridescent glass balls, red-cotton Santa Clauses, the old-fashioned popcorn strands. They would pile presents underneath, wrapped in cellophane and tissue paper, tied with ribbons and bows...
...into the night. Then: "Hello, control. C for Charlie airborne 19:35 [7:35 p.m.]." On the raid, camera and sound track accompany a plane called F for Freddie and its crew of six. Theirs is an ominous journey-through cotton-wool clouds, across rivers like threads of dirty tinsel, above the grey, night-hung earth. The pilot-captain talks with his crew over the intercommunicating phone. To his Scottish navigator: "Hey, Mac, where are we now, as if you'd know?" Mac, indignantly: "I ken fine where we are. We're approaching Karlsruhe-famous for its breweries...
Star attraction of the season is the carnaval at Rio de Janeiro, which is some thing special even among the gay celebra tions of Latin America: a swirling four-day-and-four-night bender of lights, noise, tinsel and music that makes New Orleans' Mardi Gras look like a meeting of the Modern Language Association...
Christmas Under Fire (Warner Bros.) is also propaganda, like Hydro is notable for reason and restraint. Produced by Britain's General Post Office film unit, Christmas Under Fire tells how Britons celebrated their second war Christmas-with bits of holly tied to barbed-wire fences, tinsel hung on gun emplacements, in basement shelters under their smoking towns. Reminiscent of the blasted countryside and ruined cities in H. G. Wells's Things to Come is the bleak, dark, stormy landscape of Christmas Under Fire. But inside are the same cheerful Britishers Quentm Reynolds, Collier's London correspondent, provides...
...Sunday evening. (One of the four illustrations in color is Luchow's on a Sunday evening.) In the jungle, too, in a less-than-village, he found Indians praying around a little child in a chair, dressed in white lace and embroidery, her hair decorated with tinsel and with silver wire. She had been dead several days. There were paper wings attached to the dress. The major-domo explained: "The child, who is now an angel up in heaven, is ... carried about in processions from house to house . . . until it is in such a state of decay that...