These Changing Times

P: Old-fashioned carols rolled forth as usual, but in some parts of the U.S. the age seemed to be catching up to Santa Claus. Dallas' big A. Harris & Co. department store had converted roly-poly Santa into a tall, flat-flanked cowboy, who rode in a buckboard instead of a sleigh, wore a bright red shirt and long white beard but no other traditional trappings. In Pekin, Ill., when a more conventional Santa came wheeling through town in a parade, he was ignominiously snowballed by teenagers.

P: A warning that U.S. culture is in danger of becoming completely feminine was sounded by Dr. Kenneth C. M. Sills, president of Bowdoin College. With more & more young men ending up in military service instead of college, Dr. Sills direly predicted that "man will be very largely for defense only if we don't watch out."

P: In a Chelsea, Mass, court, a lawyer argued that his bookmaker client was helping to save the U.S. from Communism by contributing "to the equalization of the democratic way of life by letting poor people place small bets."

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