On Dec. 6, 1964 Americans had their first meeting with a creature who, in his own words—though he was anything but self-aggrandizing—was a dear of a reindeer. Some of them may have already known of ...

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer came into my life in 1942. I was eight years old and he was only three, but he seemed very mature for his age. Rudolph, of course, came to us from Montgomery Ward as a ...