Word: claus
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Modern Times. In Washington, D.C., the Post Office Department opened a letter addressed to Santa Claus: "Please send me two atom bombs, a couple of pistols and a good sharp knife...
...variety show headed the P.B.H. festivities with juggling by Hugh Sheply '51, (right) magic by Bradley M. Jacobs '53 and piano playing by Ralph W. Walton '52. The P.B.H. Santa Claus, Roy F. Gootenberg '49, teaching fellow in Government, took orders for deliveries as mothers cocked their ears (left). He later handed out toys' and candy...
...Dancer ... In Knoxville, Tenn., a Chamber of Commerce parade featuring Santa Claus was postponed because of heavy snow...
...fashioned carols rolled forth as usual, but in some parts of the U.S. the age seemed to be catching up to Santa Claus. Dallas' big A. Harris & Co. department store had converted roly-poly Santa into a tall, flat-flanked cowboy, who rode in a buckboard instead of a sleigh, wore a bright red shirt and long white beard but no other traditional trappings. In Pekin, Ill., when a more conventional Santa came wheeling through town in a parade, he was ignominiously snowballed by teenagers...
...were The Man with the Bag, Christmas in Killarney, Christmas in My Heart, Christmas in Heaven, Christmas Alone, Santa Send Someone to Me, When It's Christmas on the Range, Blue Christmas (Billy Eckstine), etc., as well as the perennial White Christmas. One to avoid: Boogie Woogie Santa Claus. A good one, particularly for youngsters: The Twelve Days of Christmas (Tom Glazer; Young People's Records, LP). For large & small Jimmy Durante admirers, there was Christmas Comes But Once a Year, with Frosty the Snow Man on the other side (M-G-M). For croon fans...