The face of Middletown glowed under a thin veil of white this morning. Crystals of snow last night fluffed onto the city and instead of loosening into streamlets of dark, dirt-drawing water, they huddled together and clung to the rooftops, trees and the ground. It was not the first snowfall of the season, but it was the first that left some of itself behind. The Christmas season, which annually starts the day after Thanksgiving, opened in proper form. The one and a half inches of snow were enough to inspire Christmas shopping but not enough to impede downtown driving. Santa Claus, however, was grounded. The red-clad fellow, who makes his annual trip to Middletown by plane rather than sleigh, found the skies unwelcome to flying and had to be picked up in Dayton by a representative of the Retail Merchants Assn. and motored to Middletown...