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...Christmas tree; I got my lights," said three-year-old Stephen Ridlon. "Santa Claus came." Stephen's parents and his big brother Timmy, 6, watched fondly as the out-of-season decorations lit up their Detroit home early in March. Stephen's eyes were as bright as the tree's lights, but Stephen was too weak to do more than just look...
...does by himself. He needs money, the town needs a little fun. By promoting a festival, the commodore intends to see that both needs are satisfied. From there on, his task resembles, in its ticklish reconciliation of opposites, the difficulties of a con man trying to play Santa Claus...
...attitude paralyzes policy: Item: The Berlin airlift was a heaven-sent situation of strength. The U.S. accepted the gratitude and enthusiasm of the Germans, made no real effort to develop these into permanent assets. The airlift has become in German minds just a sentimental folk memory, like Santa Claus. Everybody is in favor of Santa Claus, but how many divisions can he raise? Item: Marshall Plan aid to France (as to other countries) created a magnificent situation of strength. The passivists stood back and admired it, a monument of American generosity, and made no effective political...
...burly 52, he radiates good-natured befuddlement, looks rather like a beardless Santa Claus, with a full, ruddy face, frosty eyebrows, tousled white hair and a red flannel shirt to keep out the drafts that whip through his old house and set its mobiles whirling...
...chronological high jinks is old stuff to Chaplain Mayer; in a MATS transport plane he hops the date line between two of his stations-Kwajalein Atoll and Johnston Island-often enough to squeeze five to eight Sundays into each month. On Christmas, he was almost as busy as Santa Claus. At Kwajalein, he said Masses at midnight, 9 a.m. and noon on Dec. 25, left at 2:20 p.m. to arrive at Johnston Island at 11:30 the night before, in time to start the cycle over again...