Christmas Trivia

According to the New York Times, the now beloved Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was introduced into our holiday seasons back in 1939, as part of an advertising campaign for Montgomery Ward, a catalog and brick and mortar behemoth of retail consumer goods that went belly up in 2001 after being in business for 132 years.  So Rudolph, sad to say, began as nothing more than mere commercialism.  Bah, humbug.