Here’s a Christmas ad from those mid-century magazines that has stuck in my head for the past 50 years. I have to salute the copywriter who came up with Christmas-themed ads for gas, not just once but for many years. Perhaps that image in the upper right is a self-portrait.
The verse doesn’t scan very well, and one reason why I remember this ad is that I couldn’t figure out the first line at all; I also didn’t have any idea who Widow Twankey was. But at least I knew about King Wenceslas!
