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...Touch of Genius. The busiest toymaker of all is a Santa-Claus-shaped gadg-etman named Louis Marx, who is considered by most toymakers (who keep their sales figures secret) to be the world's largest. With sales estimated at around $45 million this past year, Marx's thousands of low-priced (5? to $25) toys captured some 15% of the wholesale market...
...Librarian Horace Tollefson against two anti-Wagnerites he claimed assaulted him. ¶ Bequest of the week: $156,345 to Williams College from the estate of a thrifty ex-salesman named Burritt Fitch Prudden, '97. Occupation at the time of his death: department store doorman and Christmas season Santa Claus. ¶ Course of the week: the University of New Hampshire's compulsory one-game seminar in football for freshmen. While the freshmen watch, the varsity will scrimmage and a coach will lecture on the plays. Explained one faculty man: too few colleges "ever go to the trouble of indoctrinating...
...covering the North Pole. No, said Brigadier General Donald Smith. Stan's pole was too big for the 58th's bomb bays, which were filled with long-range gas tanks. But word got around. A Fairbanks radio commentator known as "North Pole Nelly" suggested that Santa Claus letters from Alaskan kids could be tossed out with the pole. Air Force wives were enthusiastic. Even General Smith's wife pleaded for Stan. But the general still said...
Last week an airline company came to Stan's rescue. With an air of misty-eyed sentiment and only a sidelong glance for the attendant publicity, Alaska Airlines, Inc. announced that it would be glad to fly Stan's pole and all Santa Claus letters on hand to the North Pole some time in November. Stan was jubilant. "There'll be a pole at the North Pole if it's the last thing I do," said Stan...
California, Oregon and Washington have repudiated these schemes to divide up their water and let the bureaucrats play Santa Claus with it. In the West, water is just as valuable as land or money in the bank, and we regard schemes to divide up our water exactly as we would regard a plan to confiscate our money or real estate...