Word: shannon
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...Came to Love Charles." Many of the nation's editorial writers were unmoved. The New York Post's Columnist William V. Shannon summed it up for the dissidents when he called Van Doren's testimony "a tasteless exercise in guile and unction. The basic problem seems to be his iron egotism. Can't we have a manly, straightforward admission of error without all this hokum about his 'responsibilities to my fellow men'? . . . I could not care less whether Charlie Van Doren made $10 or $129,000. But dignity, self-respect, restraint and detachment...
...College. They continued to talk of one big adventure before settling down to careers when Armstrong turned up in Paris on his own Fulbright to do research in Chinese literature at the Sorbonne. Soon, they had enlisted two more companions-another Frenchman, Jean Pillu, 25, and another American, Donald Shannon, 28, of Milwaukee. Their ambition: to drive the 8,500 road miles from Paris to Johannesburg...
Needs & Wants. Not all Casbah scholars are social scientists. Recent alumni include M.I.T.'s noted Mathematician Claude Shannon and Literary Critic Mark Schorer, who worked on his biography of Novelist Sinclair Lewis. "Here I need no library," said Harvard Linguist Roman Jakobson. "If I have a question in psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, literature, I just go down a few doors and knock: 'May I come...
...Edgar Finley Shannon Jr., 41, as fourth* president of the 140-year-old University of Virginia (enrollment: 4,468). He succeeds retiring Colgate W. Darden Jr., who nearly doubled the school's physical plant in twelve years. English Professor Shannon was a whiz-bang scholar and crack half-miler at Washington and Lee (1949). A Navy gunnery officer in World War II, he survived the sinking of the cruiser Quincy, won eleven Pacific Theater battle stars and the Bronze Star. He specialized in Tennyson at Harvard, earned his doctorate as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford's Merton College...
First to place Acheson's criticism in a political context were not Republicans, but the liberal Democratic New York Post. Taking editorial issue with a byline story by its own Washington correspondent, William V. Shannon, who described the U.S.-Russian talks as nothing more than "another form of dithering by a weak, cowardly, reactionary Administration," the Post said: "We believe the issues [Shannon] raises are especially important because his position is undoubtedly shared by a number of Democratic leaders-most conspicuously, Dean Acheson-who seem so sorely tempted to 'open up' on the President and even...