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