YULETIDE HASH
If an alien from another planet were to drop in on America around December 22, he would find himself in another world. Not only would it be different from his own, it would be substantially different from our own. A magical transformation comes over our country sometime in the late fall, right after Thanksgiving . . . or Halloween . . . (it hasn’t started at Labor Day yet, but I wonder if the day will ever come when the fireworks stands will begin selling Christmas trees, just to avoid the rush) Well, anyway, if such an alien were to attempt to report on the story behind all this December effort, it might go like this: “Mork, calling Orson . . . Mork, calling Orson . . . Hello, Orson? Orson, they have this amazing festival down here, that everybody gets into, but especially the stores and shopping malls . . . What’s that? Oh, well, it’s sort of an enclosed walkway…
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