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Simian Sainta. In Denver, Mrs. Billie Shannon and her nine-year-old monkey, Skippit, entertained 23 less fortunate monkeys from the city zoo. Skippit was dressed like Santa Claus and passed out tiny wheelbarrows and toy washboards to his colleagues. In Kansas, whose citizens may legally consume nothing stronger than 3.2 beer, police poured $25,000 worth of whiskey down a drain. But elsewhere liquor sales-particularly of bonded Bourbon-boomed. An Indianapolis liquor dealer contrived a new kind of window display -a Nativity scene set up in a Haig & Haig carton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Christmas, 1947 | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

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