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...with an Oriental twist. Taking on the title role in a new TV production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, the portly Conrad will insist in his amateur baritone that the punishment fit the crime. "He's a great big cuddly granddad-Santa Claus with a lovely voice," says Singer Kate Flowers, 29, who plays the heroine Yum-Yum in the musical, which was taped in London. Conrad enjoyed himself so much that he intends to sign up for singing lessons when he returns to Los Angeles. "I honestly believe I would have been much happier, although...
...National Press Club not in a sleigh, but in a dark blue Dodge. Dressed in his customary rumpled civics, Presidential Assistant Lyn Nofziger, 57, bore little resemblance to St. Nick. Fortunately the illusion improved slightly after Nofziger sausaged himself into the red-and-white threads of Santa Claus. He inherited the Santa job when he agreed to serve as honorary chairman of a benefit for Washington's Children's Hospital National Medical Center. "It was really tough sledding," said Nofziger...
...through the air, With the guidance of more than reindeer and prayer. He crosses the world above the ozone, But never does Santa travel alone. When each December he sets out to service The old, the young, the cocky, the nervous, The yachtsmen, the hoopsters, and even the bowlers, Claus depends on the wisdom of air traffic controllers! Since America's leader started union-busting, There's no one left for Nick to be trusting...
Clement Clarke Moore, a professor of Greek and Oriental literature at New York City's General Theological Seminary, invented America's "Santa Claus" in 1822. Although opposed in principle to the frivolity of Christmas, Moore decided to write a poem to please his children. Inspired by his surroundings on a snowy Christmas Eve in Manhattan, Moore composed 56 lines on his way home from a market trip to buy a Christmas turkey. Moore's own sleigh and jingling bells suggested Santa's flying conveyance, while an old farmer friend, Jan Duyckinck, was reincarnated as the good saint...
...Visit from St. Nicholas" first appeared in the Troy, N.Y., Sentinel in 1823 and was reprinted in magazines and newspapers across the country. A few years later political cartoonist Thomas Nast drew a Santa Claus for Harper's Illustrated Weekly in line with Moore's characterization. The caricature depicting a round, bearded figure with a reermine-trimmed suit, a wide leather belt at shiny boots, cemented Santa Claus's image...