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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1974
Page
7
A Washington park encounter unsettles a reader who meets a limping beggar seeking coins for candy for a white albino squirrel named Sam. The bum charms with stories, then steals the narrator’s wallet, escaping as the night settles and the white squirrel vanishes.
A look at how American Jewish families cope with Christmas pressures during the season. Rabbis and parents describe feelings of exclusion and the balance between secular celebration and religious tradition. Hanukkah is often elevated to a parallel holiday, with eight days of lights amid Christmas imagery.
Percival M. Sax cites the difference between bullets and cartridges and a Queens College English teacher lists 16 language lapses from double negatives to misplaced apostrophes. A New York Times Syndicate note ends with a street corner joke about a pickup line and a lucky passerby.
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