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Rudolph Creator — Would You Believe, Montgomery Ward? (Discovery)

December 23, 2010 By Doug Cook Leave a Comment

Shhhh, don’t tell the kids. Santa didn’t discover Rudolph and his red nose — a lowly copywriter at Montgomery Ward did in the 1930s.

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