During the 1993 holiday season, the Ad Club of Boston rejected an in-house Christmas card because "all the elves were white." It then changed the name of its continuing education catalog from The White Pages to The Book of Courses.

[Ed.: In the 1870s, the English printer Tucks started making Christmas cards popular, although temperance groups objected to a picture of wine drinkers enjoying a glass in the center of their card....]

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