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...which will be placed in the Ford archives in Dearborn, Mich, next spring, was exhibited in Washington. Among them was a letter written in the childish scrawl of his son, the late Edsel Ford, and dated 1901, two years before the first model T went into production: "Dear Santa Claus: I haven't had any Christmas tree in four years and I have broken my trim-ings [sic] and I want some roller skates and I want a book and I can't think of anything else. I want you to think of something else." Andre Marty...
...almost overnight. In nearby Augusta, Ga., whose population shot from 71,040 to 150,000 in two years, it was easy to forget the plant's grim purpose in the flood of new jobs it brought. When White's Department Store hung out a Christmas sign, "Santa Claus Is Here!", Reporter Esther Young of the Augusta Chronicle cracked: "Why, everybody knows that Santa Claus is over at the H-bomb plant's pay windows...
...express the feelings of a person who received TIME for Christmas, we improvised a fable in 1926 about "a little old man" named Marcus Strong, who met Santa Claus at his club-a fable which we still retell. In a moment of typical generosity, Santa told Marcus he could have anything he wanted for Christmas...
...asked Santa Claus to give him time to think it over. Now Santa Claus is a busy old fellow-and sometimes a bit careless. And when he went away from his club that night he wrote down in his little red leather notebook: 'Marcus Strong-TIME.' And that explains how Marcus received last year his 'best Christmas present since...
...Huntington, W. Va., Lawrence H. Rogers, vice president of station WSAZ and WSAZ-TV, banned the song / Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus because "it violates a provision against songs in which children describe parents' misconduct, and implies an insult to Santa Claus and the sacred occasion of Christmas...