Pg… 12 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A True Christmas Fable About a Houseful of Children, Photographed for LIFE by Burton Glinn

Pg… 17 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Santa's Helicopter Cracks Up, but He'll be All Right

Pg… 18 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Electors are Counted and so is MacArthur

Pg… 20 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Palomar Provides Portraits of Neighbors in Space

Pg… 22 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Lo! The Indian has Designs on Poor Vermont

Pg… 24 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Great Lady Whoops It Up

Pg… 29 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Impregnable Safe Becomes a Constitutional Safeguard

Pg… 30 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: LIFE On the Newsfronts of the World

Pg… 54 AN AUTHENTIC EXPLOIT OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Adventure of the Seven Clocks, by Adrian Conan Doyle and John Dickson Carr

Pg… 62 ARTICLE: How Holmes was Reborn, by Herbert Brean

Pg… 16 EDITORIAL: Christ in American Culture

Pg… 32 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Great Gifts of History

Pg… 68 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Fairy Tales by the Salzburg Marionettes, Photographed for LIFE by Walter Sanders

Pg… 49 AN ORIGIANL RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN SONG: "Happy Christmas, Little Friend"

Pg… 27 SPORTS: Soaring on Skates

Pg… 2 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Party Guests Produced These Versions of Venus at Her Toilet

Pg… 9 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors

Pg… 74 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: LIFE Goes to a Vermont Church