Word: shannon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Simian Sainta. In Denver, Mrs. Billie Shannon and her nine-year-old monkey, Skippit, entertained 23 less fortunate monkeys from the city zoo. Skippit was dressed like Santa Claus and passed out tiny wheelbarrows and toy washboards to his colleagues. In Kansas, whose citizens may legally consume nothing stronger than 3.2 beer, police poured $25,000 worth of whiskey down a drain. But elsewhere liquor sales-particularly of bonded Bourbon-boomed. An Indianapolis liquor dealer contrived a new kind of window display -a Nativity scene set up in a Haig & Haig carton...
Last week, still M.F.H., Mrs. Hanbury took a plane at Shannon Airport and flew away to England. "She's a kind, generous woman," said the members of her hunt, but by week's end, as more & more farmers joined the boycott, the Blazers were hunting under police protection and there was more trouble ahead for them. Said Harry Walker, second whip of the hunt: "If Mrs. Hanbury goes, the kennel staff goes...
Featuring the list of cadet commissions, the first post-war ROTC journal blossomed forth this week under the direction of D. A. Sutherland '50. A bimonthly mimeographed eight-page affair called "Shannonigans" after its home in Shannon Hall, the paper is handed out free to all members in the ROTC program...
...lineup: HARVARD MIDDLESEX Forte, ss cf, Monahan Taylor, cf c, Crosby Fitz, 1b rf, Gannon Guidera, rf lf, Ananian Carlson, 3b 1b, Daly Hickey, c 3b, Shannon Glimp, lf ss, Murphy Sylvester, 2b 2b, Hunington Foster, p p, Tyler
...Tansey got the latest weather report. A ground mist was hanging over Rineanna Field at Shannon. It had all but "socked in" the airdrome; the ceiling was at 500 feet, the minimum for night landings there. Perhaps the Star of Cairo might have to go to Prestwick, Scotland, or another alternate field. Anyhow, there was plenty of time to decide...