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Disagreement came when the store's department heads saw Macena Barton's $1,000 Modern Olympia, a reclining, nude young woman with scarlet toenails and a small, black crucifix. The model, Cati Mount, had been one of the attractions at Chicago's Century of Progress, but the Executive Committee well knew that the picture would offend their pious, Roman Catholic boss, tall, white-haired Dennis Francis Kelly, who was trusting his subordinates to keep things in order while he vacationed in California. Another shocker was the angry Ration Box and Crucifix, in which Artist Adrian Troy expressed...
...Lake Shore Drive, Chicago youths, adolescents and gallery-goers found that Modern Olympia had been given the show's most prominent position, at the top of the stairs leading to the second floor. Ration Box and Crucifix could be seen on the third floor, leaning against a radiator...
...Tiffany, decorator, and to Mrs. Vincent Astor. whose husband owns the hotel. Up to the priest, one by one, filed Russian musicians, waiters, bus boys, cooks and, in white chef's garb, Spiridon Ignatovich who used to cook for Tsar Nicholas II. Each kissed the priest's crucifix, each received on the forehead a dab of holy water from a long black brush. Finally the Rev. Vasily Kurdiumoff marched around La Maisonette Russe brushing it liberally with the holy water...
...they moved in solemn parade through Cleveland streets, lively with Eucharistic shields and yellow-&-white Papal colors, to the ugly red brick St. John's Cathedral. In the vestibule Bishop Schrembs censed the Cardinal Legate, presented him with a crucifix and aspersorium. A choir sang: Ecce Sacerdos Magnus ("Behold the great priest"). Protector noster aspice Deus ("Oh God, Our Protector, look upon us"), chanted the Bishop, while the Cardinal knelt at a faldstool. His brief liturgical reception over, Patrick Cardinal Hayes had nothing official to do until that evening when, in the Public Auditorium, he was publicly welcomed to Cleveland...
Next day Miss McDowell got dressed, and "it was said I 'looked like a nun.' I hope I did because every nun I know looks like a saint. . . . I also carried with me several small sacred objects. . . . One was a small silver crucifix. I have since arranged with my family to be buried in the black dress and with this crucifix in my hand...