Word: aspenization
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...England, waiting for the invasion, Walton lived and flew for months with the men of our Eighth Air Force-and the first time he saw Paris he was "shaking like an aspen" in the nose of the Flying Fortress Georgia Peach in the celebrated Bastille Day bombing. "Ahead of us Focke-Wulfs and Messerschmitts dived and rolled, spitting lead, and bursting flak made black puffballs all around...
...Publisher Roy A. Williams of the Aspen, Colo. Times (circ. 556): "I agree with the article. . . . The country newspaper is a business, a merchandising business, and anybody who thinks it is anything else is getting ready to lose some money. Tact is the word...
Gradually, steadily, doggedly, the snorting cats-drove the forest back. Woodsmen logged the spruce, pine and aspen for corduroy roads over the bogs. "Mister, I thought we'd never get through those first 15 miles. We'd get so damn tired we could hardly drag home, but every afternoon when we got to the store at Charlie's Lake, the lady there'd have a cake for us. Boy, those cakes were good...
...Swiss Skier Andre Roch proposed to lay out such a course for the U. S. He chose Aspen, Colo., in the heart of the Rockies 200 miles west of Denver, in the 1880s the "world's richest mining camp," now a shrunken village of 800 miners. Roch laid out the course on the precipitous north slope of Mt. Aspen before he returned home. Aspenites completed it according to his plan. From a height of 10,350 ft. above sea level, Roch Run has a vertical drop of 2,500 ft. in one and three-quarters miles. It begins...
Busiest spot in Aspen last week was the barbershop of the Jerome Hotel. Thither small boys carried trays of beer, as spectators watched with telescopes through the wide windows Aspen's first running of the national downhill and slalom championships. On Saturday they saw stocky, Austrian-born Toni Matt, of North Conway, N. H., whoosh out of the steep pitch of the "Dipsy Doodle" into the Big Corkscrew to finish first in 2 min. 22.6 sec.-an average of better than 44 m.p.h. Second place in the slalom next day made him U. S. combined champion. Said National...