The Face Was Lou's
Coke's holiday trucks are back. Coke didn't make Santa red: Puck did, and a rival soda used him first. What Coke had was a painter, a retired salesman for a model, and later a mirror. Lately, AI.
He Offered to Add Lincoln
The Rockefeller Center tree went up last Saturday. Behind it is the lobby where a Rockefeller had a Diego Rivera mural destroyed for including Lenin. Rivera's proposed compromise is on the wall now.
Worth More Than a Fourth-Round Pick
Mickey Mouse turns 98 next Wednesday. He only exists because Walt Disney didn't own his first hit, and Disney got that one back by trading a sportscaster.
Pre-War Prices
Today is Armistice Day. The trench coat was named in that war, and back then privates weren't allowed to wear one.
Four Bare Sticks
Tomorrow is 11.11, the biggest shopping day in the world. It started in 1993 as a joke about being single, in a college dorm in Nanjing.
