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...CLAUS HALBERSTAEDTER
...Boss Khrushchev], one of the 14 most powerful men in Russia, at 52 looks at least a decade older, rather like a beardless Santa Claus after a hard Christmas, because he almost worked himself to death during the war. The day-to-day performance of the men who run the Ukraine seemed to me about as good as any I've ever seen. . . . They would measure up pretty well, for example, beside such smooth-running outfits as the U.S. Forest Service or the Republican machine in Westchester County...
...Alexander Woollcott, Edwin C. Hill, etc.), and still has a stable of byliners, including Critic Ward Morehouse, Cartoonist Rube Goldberg, Paragrapher H. I. Phillips. By long custom, Sun editorial writers are anonymous and stay that way: Francis Pharcellus Church, who wrote the famous "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" editorial on short notice in 1897, had to wait until his obituary (1906) to get credit...
Moppets & Money. One day in December 1943, French looked out the P-I window, saw a long line of kids trying to get into a department store across the street to see Santa Claus. Says French: "I walked outa the joint and across the street. I looked at those kids' faces and saw how happy they were as they told Santa Claus what they wanted for Christmas. I thought I'd just like to sit somewhere and take pictures of those faces." The following Christmas he took a leave of absence from the PI, rigged his camera inside...
...disclosing a hidden gold mine. The rest of the action takes place for the most part amid deep drifts of Hollywood snow (shaved ice and raw white corn flakes), as Hope and Crosby, assisted by a talking fish, a talking bear, a dynamite-carrying dog and Santa Claus and his reindeer, mush their Malemutes through a Klondike blizzard of paradox and punning...