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...seasonal rush for part-time jobs to augment. Christmas shopping funds was or in full force yesterday at the Student Employment Office, 29 Weld Hall; students were snapping up everything from plucking ducks to playing Santa Claus...
...excuse for meretricious salesmanship, for urging one & all to buy unwanted presents for their friends, to the profit of the dollar-hungry. For a month before the Feast, the cry is: 'Buy! Adeste Fideles. Nylons for your lady! . . . It Came Upon the Midnight Clear. What came, Mummy? Santa Claus, my dar-lings.' " So writes sharp-penned Canon Bernard Iddings Bell in the current Faith and Thought, bulletin of the Episcopal faculty and students at the University of Chicago. The deChristianizing of Christmas was also troubling other Christians last week. In Milwaukee, the community was trying to do something...
...religious meaning, will stress the remaining weeks of Advent as a time of preparation by penance and prayer. Said Mrs. Fred J. Vollmar, chairman of the St. Boniface Archconfraternity, last week: "We must become more Christ-minded about Christmas . . . We have given prominence to a worldly Santa Claus-who has no resemblance to St. Nicholas-and have entirely left out the thought of the birth of the Savior...
...Pittsburgh last week, Newscaster Paul Long, speaking casually on NBC's network show News of the World, announced: "John L. Lewis just shot Santa Claus. That's what one miner told me today in commenting on the coming coal strike...
...Next day, the Chicago Sun-Times, which had had its share of calls, headlined: "Children: Santa Has NOT Been Shot." Penitent NBC prefaced its next day's News of the World with an interview, over a "special super-radio circuit," between Commentator Morgan Beatty in Houston and Santa Claus at the North Pole. Said Santa, reassuringly: "John L. Lewis just missed...