Word: shannons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robert Shannon, hero of A. J. Cronin's story (little Dean Stockwell and, later on, Tom Drake), is an Irish Catholic orphan, adopted by a Scottish Protestant family. The father (Hume Cronyn), a penny-pinching petty tyrant, sells the child's sole heirloom, a velocipede. The grandmother (Gladys Cooper), a termagant, makes him a green flower-sprigged suit out of a petticoat. The great-grandfather (Charles Coburn), a sort of marked-down Falstaff, heartlessly clips his toenails in the waif's face, but soon shows that this was mere gruffness. The schoolboys tease the orphan about...
Many a leather-faced wartime ranker figured that it would be more profitable, in the long run, to become an enlisted man again when the shooting was over. Few had to drop as far back as Ralph T. Shannon, who had spent 19 years as an enlisted man when the Army called him to duty as a reserve officer...
Nearing 45, Soldier Shannon figured the alternatives closely: to stay an officer, he; would have to be broken to major. Also, he could never accumulate enough years of commissioned service to qualify for an officer's top retirement pay. But as an enlisted man, he could count all his years in uniform toward retirement pay; with 29 years, he could get out and draw $150 a month...
...Last week, at Fort Riley, Kans., Colonel Shannon took off his eagles, traded them for the stripes and rockers of a master sergeant-and went back to saluting second lieutenants and calling them...
...announced that it will continue to carry passengers to Shannon, Eire, for $247. Passengers must find their own way from Shannon, near Dublin, to London (they could go by plane twice a week if they were lucky, or by taxi, bus, boat and train-a trip which sometimes takes two days). Twice a week, Pan Am will fly all the way to London but has not yet set the fare. Furthermore, said Pan Am, it will soon start flying to France at fares comparable to the $275 rate...