Chum was a British boys weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children. – A. E. van Vogt

In the spring of 1994 I decided not to seek reelection to the Senate. I had made the decision 12 years earlier, Christmas Day of 1982, just after I had been first elected to a full term, that I would do the best I could for a limited time. – George J. Mitchell