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December 1949

The Greatest Gift

Santa Claus comes out of the gutter

"I just saw 'em pick Santa Claus out of the gutter and cart him away. Dead drunk he was!" So spoke the little man as he let himself in out of the December chill. Everyone up and down the bar grinned--or grunted. There was a wise crack or two. The humor wasn't very high grade. But then this wasn't a very high grade bar either.

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