Word: knoxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Starting Monday guitarist Charlie Byrd will appear with his trio at Sandy's. Byrd fancies himself a jazz and classical guitarist--"Blues and Bach" is a trademark. His trio, with brother Joe on bass and Bertrell Knox on drums should provide some interesting club music...
...militia, some in blue coats and buckskin breeches, some in brown hunting shirts, formed up, shouldered arms, then clattered over durable Dutch cobblestones to man sod redoubts recently thrown up at the foot of each major street leading to the harbor. At the Grand Battery, where Colonel Henry Knox, commander of Continental artillery, has set up a row of old and partly rusted cannon, sweating artillerymen stood to their pieces and peered southward across the waters. Alarm guns roared to alert northern batteries and fortifications in the woods along both east and west shores of the island. Major General Israel...
Much is at stake in New York. And while it is a logical place for the British to attack, it is a less than ideal place for Washington to defend. One difficulty is the nature of the New Yorkers themselves. Colonel Knox, a Bostonian, has described them as "magnificent in their pride and conceit, which is inimitable; in the want of principle, which is prevalent; in their Toryism, which is insufferable, and for which they must repent in dust and ashes...
Three of the ten Knox winners and all three of the Knox judges are from Lowell House...
Wilkinson denied any bias toward Lowell House applicants, but said the Knox committee was "under a certain subtle pressure to take women because the Knox was just opened to women...