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“are You sending this oh - 274 more than I'm : Christmas, and I'm thinking of Christmas devoid of dollar signs, is a pretty wonderful festival. It's one time of the year when home and family and friends mean more, It's one day when I

don't want to hear about volume, cost, per-

centages, time payments. : Christmas spirit is closely affiliated with the heart. There's no doubt that Christmas has become a cold and calculating frame of mind. Tin and tinsel get knee-deep. When we give with the right hand, we're dying to know what the left will get. And it better be good. Makes me rather sad sometimes. THIS sams Ea coldness applies to the practice of sending Christmas STE ft the io day a friend of mine wept on my shoulder about the terrible task he faced when he got home. Fortifying myself amply with an exotic liquid the hill folk of Kentucky export to the world, I prepared to sympathize with the man. “Do you know what I have to do tonight?” “ “No,” I answered, grabbing a section of walnut to steady myself, “what do you have to do?” “I have to help my e address Christmas cards. I would rather be horse-whipped than go through with thdt ordeal! My wife has about 300 to. go_out this year.” I La “You're In luck, friend,” I said. “I have a horse-whip right here so whenever you're ready, give the word.”

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cards year? Oh, only 274. That's he had better go "would be much cards.

e make a tremendous project out of sendThey bellyache, whine and grumble. I 't want a card from anyone who grumbles makes an unpleasant chore out of sending a have known individuals who make a game out of receiving cards. They get one point a card. And curses, curses, if fewer cards come in than were sent out,

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THIS wholesale buying of Christmas cards with the name printed on each gives me the

chills whenever I think of them. A box of ready-

mix cards do about as much for me as a barrel of iced fish. ; ! : A perfectly sincere and lovely wife and mother will sit by the hour and figure her list of recipients. Did so-and-so send us a card last year? That awful Mrs. Mudhen sent a card just because her husband is in the insurance business. Better put her down, though, even if it is a waste of postage. 2

e. My Christmas greetings are short, personal letters. They go to friends and members of my small family, The addresses are in a filing cabinet under my hat. There's no strain to remember. Close friends who mean a great deal to me deserve more than a printed and gilded paper that I didn’t print or gild. eo

I TRY TO MAKE my greeting as close as a handshake or an affectionate hug. I try to spend at least 15 minutes visiting through the medium of the letter. Only those persons get a personal letter whom I won't see this Christmas. Like my brother and his wife in Los Angeles. A lifelong friend and schoolmate in Washington gets a letter. Quite a few Christmas greetings to friends in the city will be delivered personally. Each year I wish one of my friends a Merry Christmas and

_ Happy New Year over a Tom and Jerry. This

to him and his wife.

Which one? . . . For

some, Christmas cards are a nightmare. ’

It Happened Last Night

By Earl Wilson

NEW YORK, Dec. 9—This woman had made it fun to be deaf, That’s a lie, of course . , . a dirty columnist’s trick. : But she was prancing with pride about her . mew pearls—which were strung on a wire. The wire was covered by the pearls. The wire led to a hearing aid concealed in a pocket ix her—tth—Dbodice. : “See!” she said. “The wire's) covered by the pearls. The hearing aids covered by my earol first time. in ¥

¢ oo f FOR ONE day I skipped the © pretties and cakes like Annie Pie Sheridan and Betty §& Cake Hutton to write of this ¥ fortyish brunette, Mrs. Marie & Hays Heimer, She wants to help 15,000,000 Mrs. Helmer deaf (3,000,000 children). She dreams -of the Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center as “the Mayo Clinic of Deafness.” My, now, but she was rushing to Bernie Baruch, the Rockefeller, Whitney and Carnegie Foundations, for funds for new wings. “If I get enough wings, maybe I'll go to Heaven,” she said.

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“I WAS 19 when I woke up deaf,” she went back. She wasn't sure at first. : She began to know when a boy read poetry aloud to her which she couldn’t hear. “I went to a little lame doctor who took my hand. : “He said, ‘’'m lame, you're hard of hearing. Go out and listen in as long as you can -on this wonderful world.” A “So now I'm fighting for research. So little’s peen spent on deafness . . . because “But a little bit of you does die . .'+ LE ” NOW A lot of fairish folks—Beethoven, Rupert Hughes, Howard Hughes, Plerre du Pont, J. P. Morgan, some others—have done all right ‘But to get to LIKE it! ’ : «J collect sounds!” She was excited and laughIng about that. “I"love the thunder. I think of the gods bowling up there. i «I love the wind whistling, The sound of rain on windows. I even ge the hurricane. “THE MOST wonderful sound was the squeak

Americana By Robert Ruark

' NEW YORK, Dec. 9—The tricky technicality is ever with us, especially in the courts of law,

but it seems a shame that the government of the

ited States must spend a few more hun ye or to drearily retrace the trial of Judy Coplon, the duly convicted spy. Especially since

the Court of Appeals admits that her “guilt is plain,” “even while granting her the new hearing. It has been a year and a half since little Judy was grabbed by the FBI as an accomplice of Valentin Gubitchev, the Russian spy who has since been deported.

H~=but. you'd. have to stand up for-that, and I.

year my Tom-and-Jerry-Christmas card will be Takes a little time, sure, but when I wish him the Season’s Greetings, I feel like it. od ud

THIS HABIT of writing personal Christmas cards started one year when the despression hurt something awful. My mgqther started it. We made simple greeting cards out of notebook paper 34 crayons. Christmas cards have always been to disc

It isn’t my ourage the use of greeting cards. I doubt whether that is possible. Everything about Christmas has gone out of control and you wonder where it will end. Two nights this week have been set aside for writing my greetings to dear friends and my brother and his wife. When the moment comes to spend some time with them, my heart will tell me what to say. And that is one time of the year I write with a pen. Even the typewriter is set aside.

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of a seat in a movie when I'd just got my hearing aid—my first sound.” Her mind raced now with ideas—to get people to give cash birthday presents to the Hearing Center instead of to a person who already has everything. To get funds for “The Lost Chords Club.” “That's cancer victims who've had larynxes taken out. * “There's no fund,” she said, “for people who've

had their throats cut!”

ee» ‘MRS, HEIMER had to gallop to another

“Every day I'm hearing a little less. My hearing has no future. So I have to rush,” she said, and honest . . . she bounced away with a smile. 8o if you're looking to do some good. . . . ® &

MIDNIGHT EARL . . . Mrs. Al Jolson and son Asa are at the Edison, guests of Nathan Kramer, so long Jolson’s great friend and then his pallbearer. . . . Justice William O. Douglas reportedly‘ doesn’t want the Columbia presidency it Gen. Ike leaves. . . . Trends: Lindy’s coffee up a nickel. . . . The Henry Ford's were at El Morrocco’s Round Table. . . . Phil Baker's got a fancy disc jockey bid. . . . Next femme TV star: Lilli Palmer. . . . “Expenses” of several charity functions are being looked into. ® oS &

TODAY'S BEST LAUGH: At the Persian Room a drunk asked Victor Borge to play “The Star Spangled Banner.” “I'd love to,” said Victor,

don't think you could make it.” EARL’'S PEARLS... Don’t ask a married man if he’s ever

nobody’s

on.

Ones ($10,000) for two TV shots and one radio

show. . . . Isabel Bigley of “Guys & Dolls” credits 2 coach Claudia Franck with her success. Jv. Beverly Andell, “Mrs. -N.Y.C. of 1950” is a Fla. divorce, . . . Fredric March's dtr. Penny, of Vassar, has pneumonia. :

_ Hear about the GI rookie who was told to

take a horse and have it shod. When he came back horseless and was asked about the horse, he “Oh my God, did you say SHOD?” , . . That's

Writer Bets Judy . Won’t Do Time

often. What, for instance, ever became of 8 Rubinstein’s big fax-fram trial? @

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FALLS CITY, Neb, Dec. 9 (UP)—Things got rather involved in the county jail here. Both the I present and former husband of eation, will be the speaker at the a local woman shared the jail's first graduation exercises of the acilities, ; She couldn't do any visitt ng, 1 actical Nurse Class .of the however. She was in the hospital Health and Welfare Council. | recovering from a beating ad-} Ceremonies will be held Dec. ministered by husband No.2. {19 at 8'p. m. at Technical High ® was in jail after pleading lL. Dr. H L. Shibler, guilty to the assault. Husband EO a tdians op No. 1 was locked up on a charge|UP® polls; of failing to support his two chil- Public Schools, will present cerdren, both in her custody. tificates to 18 graduates. ‘A

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