Word: shannon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...balloon-souls of her elders. In the end, after the hot letters have rekindled an ashen marriage and warmed the cool young beauty, Author Bowen unconvincingly produces a handsome American deus ex machina-the machina in this case being a plane that carries him abruptly from Colorado to Shannon. Irish-born Novelist Bowen writes beautifully - sometimes, in fact, so beautifully that it hurts. But she also demonstrates that it takes more than good writing to make a good book...
...trouble. Some of the reasons listed by 83-year-old Irwin Vick Shannon, once a dean the sunspotters : "Cheap money, huge governmental spending and enormous building activity have largely offset the usual [bearish] effects of low sunspot activity." Nobody thought that stock prices would go up forever. In fact, Wall Streeters were looking for a good-sized "technical" reaction-simply because the market had gone up so fast with hardly a breather. But no one thought that it had reached its peak. Just as Americans had become accustomed to;-an evergrowing economy, there was no reason why stock prices, which...
...Stranger. In Xew Haven, Conn.. Judge James C. Shannon ordered an immediate mistrial when Juror Timothy Lyons fainted, was revived by Dr. Carl Y. Pantaleo. the defendant...
...afternoon open house is ample testimony to the fact that his influence is not limited to the work he has written. As a teacher he has the unique distinction of having four of his students as holders of the Pulitzer Prize. Two of these, Paul H. Buck and Fred Shannon, received their awards for doctoral theses done directly under his supervision. The other two are Oscar Handlin, winner in 1952, and his son, Arthur...
During the ceremonies 14 students received individual awards for achievement in the past year. Rhodes Scholar Eliot D. Hawkins '54 won the Shannon Medal as "the Cadet in the Senior Class who has attained the highest academic standing." Other Army award winners included Brian F. Reynolds '54, Michael Levinson '55 and William Zwilling...