Christmas All Year

Christmas 1946.  Already in November the streets and stores were filled with early shoppers scurrying through crowded aisles, pausing to inquire about this article or that, exhausting the patience of harried clerks, pushing their way into a compartment of a revolving door and elbowing a path down the sidewalk.  The stores advertise that Christmas is nearer than you think and remind you of that fact by their Yuletide decorations, which may be anything from clowns and Christmas trees to a...