If you don't know you can track Santa across the night sky with a little help from Norad. They've been doing this since 1955, when a misprint in a Sear's ad gave out the number to that little red phone. (You know they one the pentagon uses to issue the orders to nuke the old Soviet Union.) Colonel Harry Shoup quickly caught on and he and his fellow elves gave phone updates to children and radio stations. Today you can track Santa online and by phone. Colonel Shoup has since passed away, but below he tells the story of that first call.