Word: clausing
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...movie colonists assembled in Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium gave only one sign of out-&-out sentiment during the whole evening. That was a cheery huzzah for cheery Edmund Gwenn, who won an Oscar as the best supporting actor for his very human, slightly balmy Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street. Celeste Holm was named the best supporting actress for her acid other-womanizing in Gentleman's Agreement...
...stage. He sat down, arranged his tails, struck a softly impatient chord. When the chatter and applause diminished to a cathedral quiet, he began to play. People in the front rows heard him snort and grunt over sforzandos, in rollicking passages saw his blue eyes twinkle like Santa Claus's. When his program was over, he nodded his big, square head appreciatively, and trundled off stage...
Faith. In Paris, a divorce was granted to a woman who testified that her 39-year-old husband who had had a "sheltered childhood," never gave her any Christmas presents because he believed that Santa Claus would provide...
Then Senator Bob Taft took to the radio and unlimbered the Republican artillery. With a cold eye on the nation's pocketbook, he riffled through the President's list of proposed legislation. Said Bob Taft: "The Federal Government comes forward again as Santa Claus himself." The whole list of requests, Taft estimated, would run to around $10 billion a year in new expenses. Asked Taft: "Where is this money coming from...
...Grand & Interesting." The shrillest greetings to 1948 came from the official trumpets of world Communism. Boomed Moscow's Pravda: "The age of capitalism is approaching its end." Russian kids, despite Marxist disapproval of all fairy tales except the Marxist one, crowded around Santa Claus (who in Russia is called Grandfather Frost and calls on Jan. 1-see cut). The Moscow radio started the year by broadcasting the cries of a newborn baby. "We don't know your name yet," cooed Announcer Yuri ("The Golden Voice of Victory") Levitan, "but we know you will have a grand and interesting...