On Dec. 1, 1950, Sam Cooke joined the gospel group The Soul Stirrers. In 1956, the Leonard Bernstein (BURN'-styn) musical "Candide," based on the story by Voltaire, opened on Broadway.
Tune into GB News (if you dare), and you'd swear Christmas was on the brink of collapse, with its flood of headlines about "banned carols,” Santa volunteers being "sacked," and "Christian outrage" ...