Word: knoxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...KNOX BROTHERS by Penelope Fitzgerald Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; 294 pages...
Dilly said it best: "Nothing is impossible." That conviction shaped the lives of the four Knox brothers. For Dilwyn, the second-born son, it meant breaking the vital German flag code in World War I and finding a crucial key to the Germans' baffling Enigma machine in World War II. For Ronald, youngest and most celebrated of the four, it meant translating a Roman Catholic English Bible-Old and New Testaments-from the Latin Vulgate. For Eldest Brother Edmund it meant a painstaking ascension to the Fleet Street pantheon as editor of Punch. Wilfred, the third-born son, chose...
...Knoxes were born at a happy conjunction of piety and humanity. Grandfather George Knox had been a holy terror, a Low Church Anglican minister who tried to flog the hell out of his sons. Grandfather Thomas French, in Fitzgerald's words, "was a saint ... and as exasperating as all saints," a gifted linguist and longtime missionary to India who would squat in the marketplace of Agra reading the Bible to lepers. But when Edmund Knox, sire of the four brothers, took the cloth, it was of a different cut. The tireless worker for his soot-stained Midlands flocks eventually...
...idyl could not last. Father was called to a grimy industrial parish in Birmingham; their mother contracted influenza and died. But soon there was a new Mrs. Knox, an elegant lady from a landed family who encouraged the boys' brilliance: Ronnie was reading Virgil at the age of six. It was she who decreed the boarding schools they later attended: Eton for Dilly and Ronnie, Rugby for Eddie and Wilfred. Dilly went on to Cambridge, where Lytton Strachey fell in love with him (the compliment was not returned). The others went up to Oxford...
...Robert Johnson of Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., who helped conduct a 1970 medical study of several hundred athletes, figures that large numbers of the country's estimated 10 million joggers and runners suffer at some time from athletic pseudonephritis, especially if they exercise strenuously for an hour or more at a time. The problem, says Johnson, is that many doctors are unaware of the phenomenon and may order up expensive tests instead of the simple follow-up exam that would show the condition to be pseudonephritis. "Doctors are used to studying people who have been lying down...