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It offered fruitcakes and Mickey Mouse watches and live canaries. By 1968, the catalog had ballooned to 608 pages, and sold quilted robes and copper fondue pots and Electric Football games. That year, Sears retitled it the Wish Book, which was what Americans had been calling it for decades. Wish Book was the perfect name: From 1933 until 1993 when Sears announced it would no longer publish its Christmas ham-sized monoliths (then continued to dabble, in fits and starts) the Wish Book was so central to holiday expectations that it read like a catalog of middle-class American aspiration. UNSUNG THE SEARS WISH BOOK A GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST For decades, Sears' annual holiday catalog was a window onto America's middle-class aspirations vice president for Hoffman Estates-based Sears Holdings, began picking through the company's archives, assembling an in-house showcase of this history, to remind employees of the struggling retailer how deeply its roots once reached.

When he came to the Wish Books, he was flooded with memories. 'Tor myself, I look through our Christmas catalogs from the '70s and I'm remembering my dad, and good times with brothers and sisters. And Christmas itself. It's not about recognizing a G.I. Joe (on a Wish Book page).

It's about the emo- Turn to Sears, Page 4 To flip through one today is to see what we thought our homes and holidays should look like. Indeed, for many kids, the arrival of the annual Wish Book was nothing less than the unofficial herald of the holiday season. We like to grumble that Christmas comes earlier every year, but the Wish Book would appear in late summer, just as school was returning; which meant, by Thanksgiving, the catalog was dog-eared and mangled, its pages circled and scissored out, to act as helpful illustrations for wish lists to Santa. You had months to wish. About a year ago, Rob Gerlach, a division Harassment in newsrooms Matt Lauer's firing and other skeletons in the media's closets BROADWAY REVIEW 'Meteor Shower' a loud, wild farce By Chris Jones Chicago Tribune NEW YORK If you're Steve Martin you know, that off-kilter, one-man cultural conglomerate and you walk into some Los Angeles house party, you must quickly find yourself surrounded by tediously chatty rich people who look at your face and all it represents to them and grant themselves permission to show off.

Heavens, what that man must suffer: jokes, musical renditions on the banjo, literary satire, psychobabble, pitches, declarations of ideology and, I'll wager, a few sexual passes. If you were Steve Martin, RICHARD DREWAP NBC fired Matt Lauer for "inappropriate sexual behavior." Heidi Stevens Balancing Act Former Chicago Tribune executive editor Ann Marie Lipinski wrote a powerful, important essay this week about newsroom sexual harassment, and it's all the more essential in the wake of Matt Lauer's firing from NBC. Lipinsld, the head of Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism, started working here, in the newsroom whence I type, as a summer intern in 1978. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988, served as the paper's top editor from 2001 to 2008 and, along the MATTHEW MURPHY PHOTO Amy Schumer stars in Steve Martin's play "Meteor Shower." would you not have learned to float above this farcical detritus, to mine it for human behavior, to maybe stick it all in your notebook and then in a play? And when faced with one or two of the really intolerable bores, would you not, in your Turn to Meteor, Page 2 in her Nieman Reports piece. "Looking back, I see that anticipating and deflecting predator colleagues was simply a skill woman journalists of my generation acquired in stride, like how to write a lede or decode property records." Turn to Newsrooms, Page 2 way, elegantly navigated the shifting tides of journalism and the culture it both shapes and reflects.

Which is to say she's seen it all or at least a whole lot of it. "The handsy city editor; a source's solicitations mid-interview; a feature editor's unbidden shoulder massages," she writes.