1953

Greetings, friends! The time is here To pass the wassail and the cheer. New Yorker does it all in rhyme. We like their style so we will mime. Space curtails writing with abandon. Please understand; we chose at random. Wassail, all! May we begin Wishing joy for Clinton Chin. Then raise a toast that’s cold and clear To Smiley Schoder, Billy Teare, Barry Groom and Gerry Grady, Lefty Leavens and Bob Brady. And next request a year of grace For Karl McGhee and Freddie Chase. May Santa fill up every room Of Tom the Blom and Tom the Bloom. Lots of leather, all from Gucci, For Don Goss and Paul Paganucci, May soft winds blow from the heartland For Alan Ives, Peter Gartland, Eddie Boyer, Boyer Chrisman, Larry Barnett and Dick Glissman. Throughout the year may doors ouvert For Tom Dixon and Nick Hagoort. May life be light and like a lark For Sherm Horten, Anson Mark, Both the Shermans, Oz and Bruce, Freddie Stephens and Chip Luce. May fair Ford mount a real burner To make a bundle for Jack Koerner, And publishers should not be sour To Burton Bernstein and Brock Brower. Fill platters each for Corky Kay, Abdul Bahrani and Chad Day. Sing out loud with Yuletide carol For Billy Gilges and Fritz Harrell, Owen Cote and Jim Kiley Buzz D’Avanzo and Chuck Reilly. May Stu Streuver find his early man And Dave Folger find ice again. Please could we have a loud ole For Warren Babcock, Bill Andre, William Chafee, Howie Clery, Tim Reed and Frank Casalvieri. Good news only for Bill Beutel. And lots of luck for Jim Cartmell. Play it straight but not too narrow For Tom Croft and Marty DeGennaro. Send tons of snow to Paul Bousquet.

And customers to Tom McCrea. Come Gus Allen, Black A 1 Collins! Make the bells ring loud in Rollins. Good rates for those at the bank Bobby Douglass, Tony Frank. For all the runners, play the band. Put Blodgett and Fred England. A . special feast for Fred Fedeli, Jack Newton and Gene Gabianelli. And seek a Madeira to impress Timmy Thomas and Thomas Hess. The horn of plenty to Bud Cherry, Rodger Ewy a.id Dave Berry. May extra presents not be lost For Joe Burbeck and T-Bone Cost. Fill the socks of Bob MacNally, Joe Pardee and Charlie Kahle. The finest treats for Jim O’Hara, Fred Whittemore and Cooz Komara. Please have Rudolph go much quicker To L.A. for David Picker, Allan Stover, Arthur Schweich, Jimmy Goldstone, Peter Reich. Special morsels for George Krall, Jay Hague and Dick Loewenthal. Hip hooray! Our hats we doff To John Dodge, Bernie Sudikoff, Ron Lazar, Bobby Nessen, Dick Joslin and Hap Presson. May lots of oil be at the feet Of barons Chuck Noll, Charlie Fleet. Send Larry Lewis gentle breeze And Billy Johnson Diogenes. Splendid Prost to Dick McCostis, Dan Ernst and Phil Metzidakis. Grant super serves for Ted Spiegel; Some lucky shots for George Keagle. And to Jim Cobb a triples crown With Boh Henderson and Don Brown. Find Mayo Johnson ocean bass And for Don Smith a winsome lass.

Thus our Season Greeting ends. Happy Holiday, good friends. The coming year is not a myth ; We celebrate our twenty-fifth. But it won’t be complete unless you’re there. '53 OUT for a family affair.

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