Christmas in America

All is mankind again. Ladies and gentlemen, the DuPont chorus, under the direction of Frank Clark, sends you its best wishes of the season. These 115 men and women work in DuPont laboratories, offices and plants in and around Wilmington, Delaware.

They are representatives of the company, which brings you better things for better living through chemistry. Our program tonight is coming to you from the stage of the Playhouse in Wilmington. With our DuPont chorus, we present as guest narrator Mr. Walter Hamden in Christmas in America.

I am Lord, sing by the faithful, King in the nation, King in the nation, King in the nation, King in the nation, This is Christmas in America, in the United States of America, in the year of our Lord

1952. From Madawaska, in the state of Maine's most northward-reaching spur to California's San Ysidro on the edge of Mexico, from Astoria in Oregon to the Boca Chica Key from Bow Bells in North Dakota to Brownsville on the Gulf.

This is the Republic at Christmas time. The

The Christmas in America It's a white clabbard New England meeting house, lighted in the evening. In the crisp, cold dusk of evening, when the lights in the tall side windows make yellow pointed panels on the shadows in the snow.

Christmas in America. It's the laughter of countless children, and the praiseful sound of still young voices lifting up the old songs. the Christmas songs that never do grow old. God, the power He led, the living, the living, the living.

Christmas in America is the crunch of hard-packed snowflakes. On the path to the door of your childhoods well-remembered home. It's the snow on the boots of the many bundled post-month And the summons of a swistle in the clean, dry air.