"He was a strict disciplinarian, but you always knew how much he cared, " Hopkins said of McKnight.

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His father, a strict disciplinarian, first placed his hopes in the oldest son, Reginald, but he had gone off to fight in World War I and came home incapacitated, one lung destroyed by mustard gas, leaving the family's future to Albert, who was twelve years younger but precociously eager.

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