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Although Roman Catholic monasteries in Hollister, Calif. and Paterson, N. J. possess what they believe are relics of the True Cross, the most remarkable one in the U. S. is in private hands. A two-inch fragment in a silver reliquary, it long belonged to the House of Habsburg, was given by Joseph II to an Austrian family named Wurschinger. In 1927, Alfred Wurschinger, an importer, brought the relic to the U. S., was offered $65,000 for it when news of it got into the press. Unwilling to sell, Owner Wurschinger insured the fragment...
...Logically they should be just as surprised at the ginkgo trees, imported from China, which actually grow in large numbers in Washington. The ginkgo or "maidenhair tree" (so called because its leaves resemble maidenhair fern) is a member of the gymnosperms, most primitive of seed plants, and is a relic of the Age of Reptiles, 150,000,000 years...
Embarrassed, Charleston Navy Yard's commandant glanced at the historic relic, shouted back: "Well, we have not any money for that sort of thing down here...
...more concern last week to Popeye's cinema sponsor, Cartoonist Max Fleischer, was the necessity of making hippy, squeaky, short-skirted Betty Boop play second fiddle to a new jitter bug creature named Sally Swing. Eight-year-old relic of the plastic, or boop-boop-a-doop, age of jazz music, Betty had successfully weathered the Afro-manic, or hi-de-ho, period without once being referred to as corny. But to the orgiastic, or zazz-u-zazz, generation Betty's presence "has been like having grandma occupying one end of the sofa all evening. A wide-eyed...
...remarkably well-preserved mummy, this relic has traveled much since Bobola, a Jesuit teacher of noble Polish birth, was scourged, beaten, flayed and scalped by Cossacks, who put him to death near Pinsk in 1657. The nearby shrine in which he was buried was successively guarded by Jesuits, Greek Catholics and Russian Orthodox monks before Bobola's relics were taken to Polotsk. In Bolshevik hands they ended up in a medical museum in Moscow-although Roman Catholics were not then aware of their whereabouts. In 1922, within a month after he became Pope, Pius XI ordered...