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...deciding to dabble in politics, he published a pamphlet called The Standard Political Handbook, sold it to the Sun Oil Co. for a filling-station handout. Ten years ago he bought the rights to the New York Sun's famed Christmas editorial, "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus," gets a royalty each time it is reprinted. When his lumber deals began to pile up a neat fortune, he bought a bankrupt professional football club, the New York Yankees, which shuddered a bit, then died all over. But his dream since boyhood was a big-league baseball club...
Says AAFSAT's commandant, veteran airman Brigadier General Hume Peabody: "It's the realization of a dream. When I was called down to run it, it revived my faith in Santa Claus...
Next Christmas, U.S. children will have to get along with 30-to-40% fewer toys than Santa Claus brought them last year. This was the sad conclusion of some 3,000 retail buyers who crowded together to stock up for Santa at the annual American Toy Fair in Manhattan last week...
Northwest was started in 1926 by the late Charles D. Dickinson, a red-faced, white-whiskered eccentric who made a fortune in the seed business, was affectionately called "Pop" and "Santa Claus" by airmen because he spent the last years of his life and much of his fortune angeling flying ventures. Aviation Bug Dickinson toyed with Northwest for a spell, lost so much money he turned it over to a group of Minneapolis-St. Paul-Chicago financiers. They did better: in 1927 Northwest had a prosperous Twin Cities-Chicago run, in 1928 spread to Winnipeg. Then Northwest picked up tough...
...picture has its Woolley moments, however. One of them comes when Monty, as a department-store Santa Claus, sucks "Alabama fog-cutters" (cocktail of unspecified ingredients) through a tube from a hot-water bottle concealed under his suit, and suddenly roars at all the kiddies and mammas: "How I hate you, one and all!" Another occurs when he stares coldly at an unwelcome female admirer (Sara Allgood) and remarks: "I have no idea what bearing it may have on your plans, but I now propose to remove my trousers...