New York directs that the holder of a pawnticket shall be the person entitled to redeem the pledge, and the pawnbroker shall deliver the pawned article to the person duly presenting the pawnticket.

Philip Whalen was stung and nonplussed by Spicer's criticism, though in later years, mellowed by Zen abbotry, he dismissed Spicer as unpleasant to everyone.

He went to Cambridge, you know.

Each long black hair upon his head hung down as straight as any plummet line; […]