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Published last week in the U.S. was the final section of Msgr. Ronald Knox's brilliant translation of the Bible-Volume II of the Old Testament (Sheed & Ward; $5). Readers who are familiar with the graceful flights and sudden surprises of Translator Knox's Bible prose will not be disappointed in his mining of the beauties of the Psalms and Proverbs, the Song of Solomon, Job, Jeremiah and Ecclesiastes, whose oft-quoted "Vanity, vanity" passage he renders...
...Knox hook and ladder rig, the noble warrior of the department, was bought from a Boston fire station and rushed to the Harvard division to become the workhorse of the University force. The Knox, featuring solid rubber tires and a built-in water pump, was by far the finest engine Harvard had ever owned...
...fire, which occurred in the A-44 room of Robert H. Knox '51 and Sterling E. Lanier '51, was discovered by Jay S. Lewis '51. Lewis had been studying on the couch shortly before the fire started but was in his own room across the hall when he smelled the smoke...
...Some of Them Words." That was in wartime 1942. The next day Alderman Douglas, the man who had been rejected by the Army for poor eyesight in World War I, enlisted as a 50-year-old private in the Marines. He had pulled enough wires with Navy Secretary Frank Knox to get a whole satchelful of waivers. He set off for boot camp at Parris Island...
During its four months on Guadalcanal the division was almost written off several times. When asked whether the hard-pressed leathernecks could hold the first beachhead in the Pacific war, Navy Secretary Knox said: "I don't want to make any predictions, but every man out there, ashore or afloat, will give a good account of himself." When this word came to Guadalcanal one sergeant mused: "Ya know, they're kicking up a stink about us back in the States." Said a private first class: "That's nice...