Word: shannon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TRUMAN MERRY-GO-ROUND (502 pp.)-Roberf S. Allen & William V. Shannon-Vanguard...
...Spear Carrier." Thus the new Merry-Go-Round brushes Harry Truman off as little more than "a spear carrier from the mob scene," and deplores his "government by crony." Yet the G.O.P., say Allen & Shannon, is worse-a "Dark Age Brigade" full of "Piltdown men" and "mental Charley horses" with "intellectual constipation, verbal diarrhea and varicose egotism...
...Allen & Shannon whirl through their chore by rote, they also pause long enough to give out a good many brass rings. Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft gets a grudging tribute but a high one: "He never ducks an issue." Illinois' Paul Douglas is described as "outstandingly the ablest man in the Senate ... for solid intellectual force...
Lowell has four new resident and one non-resident tutors. LeRoy C. Breunig, Romance Languages; Gordon Campbell, Anthropology; Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. '47, English; and Herhert J. Spire, Government, comprise the former, while Robert S. Schwantes '43, History and Literature, is the new non-resident addition...
...Shannon City, Iowa, for example, has lost 119 of its 288 inhabitants. Ernest L. Edwards, who runs the general store, can remember when three blocks in town had 23 children; now the same houses have only about a dozen widows. Said an oldster: "None of the kids ever comes back here to live after they've gone away to school." Perry Wilson, editor of the town's newspaper, died, and the paper died with him. John Butt, 82-year-old ex-mayor, lives alone on the edge of town since his wife died. His three sons are working...