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...inquiring reporter turned up a bit of overlooked Eisenhower family news: last December at Fort Knox, Major and Mrs. John Eisenhower presented grandfather Dwight with his third grandchild, Susan Elaine. Her father, an officer in an armored school, had simply skipped a public announcement of the event...
...most famous of Knox's witticisms was a limerick on the Berkeleyan idea that things exist only when they have an observer: There once was a man who said: "God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues...
...preaching has overflowed from the pulpit into the press; one Christmas the London Evening Standard set his version of the Gospel story in place of an editorial. Knox eyes Scripture with the news sense of a journalist: its characters are present in the world today. This vivid gift appears best in his small masterpiece, The Rich Young Man, the idea of which he had from a monk himself under a rule of silence. It relates how the man who went sadly away, "for he had great possessions," gambled his fortune and took to crime, ending as the Penitent Thief...
...Knox has not reached his proper place in his church. Not everybody appreciates his humor.-There are some who agree with Dr. Johnson that "This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive." Yet there have been witty cardinals before now. Knox would not want to be a cardinal, but it would please many beyond his own communion if he became one. Waugh has compared his career to Newman's, but Newman wanted recognition; Knox does not. Nor was Newman a humorist...
...Essays in Satire, Knox "proved" that Queen Victoria wrote Tennyson's In Memoriam. Perhaps one day some researcher will amuse a future generation by asserting that Essays in Satire was written by the man who made the great 20th century translation of the Bible...