Ed Grant wrote:
Tonight, at 9 p.m., on CBS, there is a movie called The Man Who
Saved Christmas, based on a real-life story.
The hero of the tale is A.C. Gilbert, who before he took up the
profession of toy-maker in the WW I era, was a natonal indoor AAU PV
champ,
also an
Alfred Gilbert (aka A. C. Gilbert) was the co-winner in the pole vault
(with another American, Edward Cook) in the Olympic Games of 1908 in London
(3.71m). As Ed Grant had implied, it is a bit difficult to imagine that
Jason Alexander's television character had once achieved such athletic
