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Gallant as all getout

Man dressed as Santa Claus standing with two seated, smiling men in suits; man in center with fedora; man at left with engineer's cap but holding fedora. Caption: "GALLANT AS ALL GETOUT: The Abraham & Straus Santa Claus takes time out from dandling kiddies on his knee and listing their Christmas wants to decorate two knights of the Long Island Rail Road with new fedoras. Engineer Walter Stephenson, left, and his conductor, J. F. Ryan, Sr., recently backed up their train during the morning rush hour to rescue a lady's wind-blown bonnet from the rails."

IMAGE DATE1954
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