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...script's neatest trick, unfalteringly pulled off by Edmund Goulding's direction and Edmund Gwenn's superb acting, is to give the picture's closing episodes the winning quality of Miracle on 34th Street. Like Miracle, in which Actor Gwenn played a put-upon Santa Claus, Mister 880 works up the surefire comic-sentimental appeal of pompous authority melting in the warmth of an ingenuous little man of good will...
Christmas Spirit. In Paterson, N.J., after a quick check of the records, the Broadway Bank and Trust Co. refused to honor a $280 check signed by Santa Claus...
...hard - hard against sin." But after a while, Pastor Fehsenfeld began to get on the nerves of some of his parishioners. He acted like a dictator, they said - expelling people from membership, illegally changing the church's affiliations, preaching against lodges and fraternal orders. He even denounced Santa Claus from the pulpit. "He said Santa Claus is a dirty lie," reported one member of the congregation. "Then he cupped his hand over his mouth and said, 'Did you hear me? It's a dirty...
Last week Pastor Fehsenfeld filed a motion for a new trial. He had done nothing illegal, he claimed, and the Santa Claus incident wasn't worth all that com motion. But he had a point to make on the subject, and he made it again: "Some people are more interested in teaching their children there is a Santa Claus and an Easter bunny than teaching about the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection. To teach your children it is a fact that there is a Santa Claus...
Away from his desk, Tom Braniff is a placid, easygoing man who plays a leisurely game of golf (he bets more skillfully than he plays), takes off on hunting trips, and at Christmas dresses up as Santa Claus for the children of his 2,401 employees. But the leisurely pace never gets into his business operations. He has applied for additional routes inside & outside the U.S. (e.g., from Havana to Washington and New York). Says he: "All my life I've wanted to see a little farther over the horizon, and the horizon keeps getting farther away...