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Unable to maintain the large house after the death of her husband, Mrs. Hicks later moved her family two streets north to the present Winthrop Street. The house, now a relic at the tender age of twenty-two, was allowed to fall into disrepair. A new owner was found, Foxcroft by name, who enlarged the building with an ell to the back that included a kitchen that new houses Kirkland's collection on political theory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

Song of Norway--at the Opera House--Another relic, this one not quite so worthwhile unless your'e particularly fond of Grieg's music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Around the Town | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

Last week President Truman could see progress, on at least one of his pet programs. Workmen started tearing out the old lift, proudly reported they had found a hoofprint of Algonquin in the cork tile floor. The cage will go to the Smithsonian Institution as a relic. It will be replaced by a speedy, fireproof elevator designed by White House Architect Lorenzo Winslow at Harry Truman's order. Until about Oct. 1 the Truman family will have to use the stairways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Progress & Pessimism | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...battleships Nevada and Arkansas, and the less-proud Japanese relic Nagatoa, all with blackened paint, twisted upper works, and assorted injuries. Most remarkable, perhaps, was a three-foot dent in the armored afterdeck of the Nevada, as though a cosmic giant had set his boot there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Fair Sample, Fair Warning | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...washed out the eyes of an infant named Peter Smith with a 50% solution of silver nitrate instead of the routine 1%. Three doctors who examined the child's scarred eyes said that there was no hope for his sight. But the hospital's Superior pinned a relic of Mother Cabrini to the baby's nightdress and called the sisters to the chapel to pray all night. Next morning the doctors admitted that a miracle had occurred-the scars were miraculously gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: First U.S. Saint | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

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