Service Workers Find Joy In Christmas Duty
A feature profiles workers keeping schedules on Christmas day from operators and reservations clerks to TV engineers and hospital nurses. Mary Gallagher and Skippy Gramlich balance family time with shift work, while Morton Romanoff rigs a TV setup for church services. Nurses at Morristown Memorial Hospital cheer confined children, saying they prefer busy holidays to loneliness.
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Mary Gallagher
Skippy Gramlich
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New York
Morton Romanoff
ABC
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Navy quarterback Roger Staubach season pass totals
Navy quarterback Roger Staubach completed 104 of 157 passes during the football season, posting a notable efficiency and leadership performance for the team.
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Roger Staubach
Navy
Home Movies Preserve Holiday Joy
A Christmas home movie guide shows planning, camera setup, and editing tips. It urges using indoor color film, closeups, varied shot lengths, and careful panning to preserve Yuletide charm and daily family memories.
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Beecomes
Junior
First Special Christmas Stamp Issued by Post Office in 1962
The Post Office printed one billion Christmas stamps in 1962, marking the nation’s first special Christmas stamp. This milestone highlights a major increase in holiday philatelic production and PR.
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Post Office
Serve Yourself Brunch For Busy Christmas Morn
A Christmas morning guide to a self serve breakfast amid gifts and chaos. Set up a hot chafing dish with sausages and scrambled eggs, toaster, plates, coffee, and ready to brown toast. Include milk cartons for kids and simple hot options like creamed chipped beef or corned beef hash for an easy gala meal.
Displaced Northerners Miss Snow On Christmas
Miami residents adapt to a snowless Christmas with palm trees and air conditioned stores. Northern natives argue over holiday spirit while locals decorate with frosted windows, poinsettias, holly and artificial scenes. The season boosts commerce, racing, and social events along Florida’s Gold Coast as visitors and residents decorate yards, boats, and clinics for the holidays.
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Joe McGowan Jr
Miami
Bethlehem
Florida
Gold Coast
Tropical Park
Coral Gables
Toys Repaired By Oklahoma Couple
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, Mr and Mrs Clyde T Davis repair and restore broken toys salvaged from junkyards to give gifts to 300 underprivileged children at Christmas. The couple, both employed, work nights from ten until 2 or 3 a.m. after their two teen sons drowned in a nearby lake six years ago.
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Tulsa
Okla
Clyde T. Davis
Davis
Armenians Say Virgin Mary Ate Spinach on Christmas Eve
In Armenian tradition, the Virgin Mary is believed to have eaten spinach the night before Jesus birth, leading families to include boiled spinach in their Christmas Eve feast.
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Christ
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