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...goodby. Spaatz's verdict on the equally reserved King of England: "A wonderful man." When the Queen paid a visit to the U.S. Air Forces and it began to shower, quiet, grizzled Spaatz wrapped his raincoat around Her Majesty. Another man might have preserved the coat as a relic. Spaatz wears it all the time. It is as torn and stained as his old pancake cap with the ripped-out lining...
Even in those early days Maria's influence was potent. Editors often were told by Sam that "Ria says" this or that ought to be done; they did it. She heard that the outworn U.S.S. Oregon, relic of the Spanish-American War, was to be decommissioned by the Navy. Said she: it ought to be brought to Portland, turned into a shrine. Soon the massive battleship was anchored in the Willamette River in downtown Portland...
...Hall is now a relic neither loved nor hated by the students. Its fantastic Gothic architecture, combining a red and blue slate roof with a monstrous green clock tower, no longer appeals to the aesthetic taste of the twentieth century. To the unsuspecting freshman it looms up on his first day as an artistic nightmare. Since the commons was discontinued in 1924, the tremendous nave is used only for registration, examinations, and Commencement. At these times the few remaining busts may be seen unreverently adorned with hats of modern style. Many debate the feasibility of junking the collossal structure. Awaiting...
While Pitcairn won a constitution, it lost a relic. Fretted by constant surf, sand in the shallows of Bounty Bay finally bared the Bounty's battered rudder. Promptly the British Admiralty claimed it, had it transferred to Fiji. The Navy had not forgotten...
Another New York church received a major relic last week when Archbishop Francis J. Spellman presented to the parish church of St. Helena in The Bronx a piece of the True Cross miraculously discovered on Calvary on May 3, A.D. 326, by St. Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor of Rome. Said the Archbishop: "This . ... relic of the True Cross [is] one of the largest pieces outside St. Peter's in Rome and the Church of St. John of the Cross in Jerusalem. It was verified as a true relic 126 years ago in Rome...