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...Knox Felowship for study in the British Commonwealth has been received by Aaron, who is an English concentrator. He hopes to study at Oxford University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 4 Seniors Receive Scholarships For Study in Europe Next Year | 4/13/1957 | See Source »

...love with a corporal-piper. The newcomer makes the fatal mistake of issuing regulations on how the Highland officers should perform their own wild dances. The climax is as grim and subtle as is proper to a race which could take its whisky along with the hard Knox of predestination. In the end, the reader will have learned something of the manners of nearly extinct fighting tribesmen-and the almost equally extinct art of tragedy in the novel. As the grand and grotesque Jock orders the pipe laments for his dead adversary, he cries to his brother officers the patriarchal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragedy in Tartan | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

...John Knox, Scotland's 16th century thunderer against popery, would have preached himself hoarse at the thought. On South Uist, North Uist and Benbecula (pop. some 5,000), an island group in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. Protestants and Catholics have banded together with a single goal: to drive out the Sassenach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Rage on the Range | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...Toughened up by energetic devotion to his career as a gentleman farmer, Northrup Knox, 28, of Buffalo, N.Y. and Aiken, S.C., demonstrated an almost tireless skill at the esoteric game of court tennis. After an afternoon's romp on the court at Boston's Tennis and Racquet Club, Knox left longtime (eight years) Champion Alastair Bradley Martin, 42, limp with exhaustion, won the U.S. amateur singles championship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

MELVIN H. JONES MFC, U.S. Army Fort Knox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

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