Word: clauses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every Yuletide since 1897, the staid New York Sun last week reprinted the famed letter-to-the-editor from eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon, and the Sun's richly sentimental reply: "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus . . ." Last week, Sun Funnyman H. I. ("Hi") Phillips jumped the gun on the editorial with a concoction of his own: a letter from a Virginia who asks the editor of Moscow's Pravda, "Is there a Santa Claus? . . . (Papa says, 'If you see it in Pravda...
...Dear Virginia," sneered Phillips: "Your inquiry is inexcusable, insolent, and wholly incredible . . . No, Virginia, there is no Santa Claus . . . Believe in Santa Claus! You might as well believe in fairies, those despicable creations of Wall Street . . . You might even see a Santa Claus. But what would that prove? It would be no sign he was there! The most real things in the world are those a child never sees but is told about by the Central Committee . . . Ah, Virginia, in all the world there is nothing real or abiding unless you get it officially from the Kremlin. Santa Claus! Phooey...
...Santa Claus (pop. 35), Ind.'s two leading Santa Clauses, William Koch and Milton Harris, were hoping against hope that they wouldn't have a white Christmas. Snow would keep upwards of 100,000 people from visiting their respective tourist attractions, Santa Claus Land and the Candy Palace...
...Professor Wiener were an ordinary scientist, narrowly specialized, he might have devoted the bulk of his book to detailed descriptions of control and calculating mechanisms. But the professor is anything but specialized. Short, round, bearded and kindly, he looks like a Quiz Kid grown into a Santa Claus-and that's about what he is. He was graduated from Tufts at 14 and got his Ph.D. from Harvard at 18. He speaks many languages; he loves detective stories and belongs to Boston's Sherlock Holmes club, "The Speckled Band." A mathematician by trade, he knows almost as much...
...Theater (Mon. 9 pm., CBS). Edmund Gwenn as Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street...