Word: shannons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...photography: Hector Rondon of La Republica, Caracas; Cartoon: Frank Miller of the Des Moines Register; Editorial writing: Ira B. Harkey Jr. of the Pascagoula, Miss., Chronicle; Local reporting not under deadline: Oscar O. Griffin Jr. of the Pecos, Texas, Independent and Enterprise; Local reporting under deadline: Sylvan Fox, Anthony Shannon and William Longgood of the New York World-Telegram and Sun; International reporting: Hal Hendrix of the Miami News; Public service: the Chicago Daily News...
Journalism: International Reporting Hal Hendrix, Fla., News, for stories revealing the Russian buildup in Cuba; Reporting under deadline pressure-Sylvan Fox, Anthony Shannon, and William Longgood, New York World Telegram & Sun, for reporting of March 1, 1962, American Airlines jet crash at Idlewild; Reporting without deadline pressure-Oscar Griffin, Jr., Pecos, Tex., independent, for publishing first articles on Billie Sol Estes...
...President's "winter of discontent" allusion sent reporters scurrying to their Shakespeare.* In fact, it had been cited two days before by New York Post Columnist William V. Shannon in an essay critical of Kennedy (in that same paper Shannon's colleague, James Wechsler, professed himself dismayed at the fact that press conference reporters keep asking Kennedy about Cuba...
Kennedy's press conference statement satisfied hardly anyone. Wrote Shannon the next day: "The presidential press conference, once a tiger burning bright in the forests of the Washington night, has become a toothless old animal." Wrote New York Times Washington Bureau Chief James Reston (who had earlier in the week wryly cited the Peace Corps as the only New Frontier program that has surpassed either promises or expectations) : "As a public relations stance, the President's attitude has its advantages. It gives the impression that somehow today's problems will yield to patience and persistence. But will...
...near Shannon Airport, a newly landed Irish-American couple listened to the rich, incomprehensible patois of the regulars at the bar. "Just listen, Harry," breathed the wife. "They're talking Gaelic!" Actually, they were talking German. What the U.S. tourists did not realize was that the "natives" were squireens from West Germany who, like scores of their compatriots, have been eagerly buying up cut-rate Irish real estate...