Word: shannon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AFROTC seniors have decided unanimously to gamble on receiving a commission in June, Shannon Hall reported late yesterday afternoon...
From the Baltic to the Mediterranean, from the Shannon to the Elbe, tractors, horse teams and the work-blackened fingers of peasant women were gathering in ,what looked like the biggest harvest since World War II. French hillsides teemed with blue and green grapes that sent the price of wine toppling. In Germany, cattle and hogs were plump and plentiful; in Scandinavia, furrows bulged with a splendid crop of potatoes. Everywhere, except in Switzerland, where the spring frosts were harsh, Western Europe's harvest waxed fat and mellow, promising its people that next winter none need starve...
...denim revolution was helped along four years ago by Fabric Designer Mary Shannon, fashion stylist for North Carolina's Cone Mills, biggest U.S. maker of denims. She showed that the cloth had unlimited fashion possibilities. The company brought out more than 50 new kinds -stripes, plaids, multicolored combinations. At the 1949 showing, Mrs. Shannon herself appeared in a tailor-made denim dress of her own design, set off delighted murmurs in the trade. By the following year such designers as Brigance and Jane Derby had created rhinestone-studded evening dresses and town clothes of denim. One high-fashion stylist...
...Edgar F. Shannon, Jr., assistant professor of English, will go to England to study Tennyson's literary career...
Small Voice. In St. Louis, when police asked John Shannon whether he had broken a window of the Supreme Poultry & Fish Co. and stolen a duck, he retorted: "I don't know a thing about it," was contradicted by a loud quack from inside his shirt...