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...reference borrowed from an 1897 editorial in the New York Sun, written in response to a letter from a worried eight-year-old girl, assuring her: "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columnists: Life Imitates Art | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

...published by Thomas Y. Crowell Co. and it's only $6.95 at your nearest bookstore," Santa Claus told them, slipping some eggnog into Jove's hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mythology | 12/8/1964 | See Source »

DIRECTIONS (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). The crassly commercial side of Christmas is sniped at in a play that finds Santa Claus bedeviled by consumer researchers and pitchmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 4, 1964 | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

Advanced placement begins in the nursery, say some perhaps overly worried child development experts: by the time a kid is ready for school, he has already reached more than half his general "achievement level" for life. So educators have awarded Santa Claus a Ph.D., and preschoolers with well-heeled, ambitious parents are acquiring toys that teach concepts of mathematics and science almost before the children can speak in whole sentences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning: New Breed of Toys | 12/4/1964 | See Source »

...sculpture seems like the pastime of a thousand elves. Perhaps the tiny fellows actually exist in the mischievous mind of Alexander Calder, who, at 66, has all the mien of a beardless Santa Claus, right down to his habitual red flannel shirt. He has given so much to the world for so long that he is the U.S.'s best-known artist abroad. His fancies in metal strike many people as toys, but also remind them that toys are made to stimulate the imagination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: Toys for All Ages | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

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