Word: shannon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fathers of students currently attending UMass never attended college; only 15.9 per cent of the fathers of Harvard '62 did not go to college. Over 42 per cent of UMass students's fathers work at "blue collar" jobs, but for Harvard the figure is only 8.2 per cent. Shannon McCune, Provost of the University of Massachusetts, estimates that fully 80 per cent of his students are lower- to middle-middle class...
Died. Elizabeth Dodero Shannon, 45, onetime Ziegfeld showgirl (stage name: Betty Sundmark) who. while appearing in Monte Carlo Follies, met and married Argentine Shipping Magnate Alberto Dodero, became an international-set hostess and an intimate friend of Argentine Dictator Juan Peron and wife Eva; in Manhattan. To solidify her husband's personal-business relationship with Peron, Betty once stripped a diamond ring off her finger to give Eva when she admired...
...educational, governmental, and industrial settings of creativity were discussed by a panel moderated by Norman F. Ramsey, professor of Physics; Dr. H. B. G. Casimir, director of Philips Research Laboratories, the Netherlands; Dr. Emanuel R. Piore, director of Research, International Business Machines Corporation; and James A. Shannon, director, National Institute of Health, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare...
...speakers at the public sessions of the conference on scientific creativity are: J. Bronowski, Director of the Coal Research Establishment of the National Coal Board, England, and author of The Common Sense of Science and Science and Human Values; James A. Shannon, Director of the National Institute of Health; Emmanuel R. Piore, Director of Research at the I.B.M. Corporation; and H. B. G. Casimir of the Philips Research Laboratories in the Netherlands...
...Army library in Shannon Hall, the Colonel hopes that the endowment funds will permit the collection to be constantly renewed with up-to-date books, particularly on problems of national security. At present, the library is small, but comprehensive. Its utility, however, is strongly dependent upon constant additions which can only come through a special endowment...