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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he was 15, Knox began to take up religion seriously on his own. A friend came down with typhoid and, feeling that he must somehow help, Knox lived on bread & butter for six weeks. When the friend died, Knox prayed for him 15 minutes daily "with my hands held above the level of my head, which is not as easy as it sounds." At 17, he vowed himself to celibacy: "The uppermost thought in my mind was not that of virginity ... I must have 'power to attend to the Lord without impediment...
...Light Began." In 1939, Knox was assigned by his archbishop to translate the Bible. He retired to a friend's house in the country and set to work on a lonely, eight-hour-day, six-day-a-week schedule. In three years he had completed the New Testament and went right to work on the Old-turning out an average 24 verses a day, though sometimes he struggled all morning to get a verse just the way he wanted...
Novelist Evelyn Waugh has said of his friend's translation: "It is unquestioned that for the past 300 years the Authorized Version has been the greatest single formative influence in English prose style. But that time is over . . . When the Bible ceases, as it is ceasing, to be accepted as a sacred text, it will not long survive for its fine writing. It seems to me probable that in a hundred years' time the only Englishmen who know their Bibles will be Catholics. And they will know it in Msgr. Knox's version...
...riders, he selects four to train for competition. Says he: "I tell my men what to do once. If they disobey me twice I tell them, 'You are very good friend but you are no good-go somewhere else.' " His men get up at 6 a.m. to start the day in the saddle; they also study the anatomy of the horse, the foreign riding styles (especially Italian, French and German), keep fit with fencing, basketball and swimming. But no matter how hard they try, the pupils never excel the teacher...
...smog of discreet silence settled last night upon the return of James Leigh, Jr. '51, his friend Ralph Foote, and their child "brides" from Philadelphia. The four runaways entered Boston over the weekend in the custody of Leigh's parents...