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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another letter, signed by Staffer Gwen Risedorf, also protesting the shortage of jobs. .When the telephone rang last week in Mrs. Risedorf's home, the caller carried on a lewd conversation, made a date with Reporter Risedorf. When he showed up, the waiting cops pounced, arrested Donald J. Shannon, 33. He promptly pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct. There was only one embarrassing note in Newsday's fine detective work. Shannon turned out to be a Newsday employee-a district circulation manager. He was promptly fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Call of Duty | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...giving top scientists the widest latitude, Bell Telephone Laboratories, the $113 million-a-year research arm for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and Western Electric, has struck some of the biggest pay lodes in industrial history. In 1948 Bell Mathematician Claude Shannon, projecting earlier studies by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Norbert Wiener, published Communication Theory, a complex mathematical scheme for measuring information content in communications, as well as evaluating the performance of systems that transmit words and pictures. The theory opened new horizons in telephone and TV transmission, has already found its way into the Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: $5 Billion Investment in Abundance | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

...serve no hot meals or liquor. They would thus be able to cut down the galley, make do with two stewardesses, and carry as many as 104 passengers, v. 71 on present tourist flights. On a DC-7B, the flight would take 13 hours, including stopovers at Gander and Shannon, take two hours more than present nonstop tourist schedules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: To Europe for Less | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

Pity the poor English major. His troubles began with a retirement, were compounded by a departure, aggravated by a leave of absence to Stanford, and culminated by five Guggenheim Fellowships. The exodus leaves the department without Baker, Bate, Brower, Levin, Shannon, Guerard, and Rollins. So pity the poor English major as he tries to find a professor. Sorrow for him as he searches for courses with which to pass generals. Grieve for him as he looks for Modern Novels, Romantic Poets, Elizabethan Literature, Early Tudor Literature, Eighteenth Century Literature, Criticism, and Modern Poetry. Unloved, unwanted, and now uneducated--pity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alone, Alone... | 5/2/1956 | See Source »

Dave Hawkins of the Crimson led teammate Sigo Falk to the finish of the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:31.4, three-tenths of a second off Hawkins' record for the varsity. The Tigers' Pat Shannon never threatened second place...

Author: By L. THOMAS Linden, | Title: Varsity Swimmers Beat Princeton; Williston Academy Tops Freshmen | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

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