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...height of his fame, he went to Eldorado Springs, Colo, to walk a steel cable which a resort owner, Frank Fowler, had strung across South Boulder Canyon. The cable was 635 ft. long and 582 ft. above a foaming torrent. As fourteen thousand watched, the professor walked the dizzy wire with ease, pausing in mid-passage to stand on his head...
Last week Pianist Joyce was far from her new fans. She had gone back home to give a charity concert in the Australian mining town of Boulder, "where my father slaved and died." Some of the home folks still remembered her as a red-haired gamin who used to wheeze out Cherry Ripe on a mouth organ for pennies outside of Boulder's Angel...
...works. She recalled her father's rebuke when she returned from Europe once before, full of Beethoven concertos. When she was unable to play his favorite Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms, he had muttered "All your schoolin's bin wasted." This time, in Boulder's city hall, she gave them, among other things, Liebestraum, the "Moonlight...
Since war's end, no one had known what to do with Basic Magnesium, the world's biggest magnesium plant. Built in 1941 in the desert in Nevada between Boulder City and Las Vegas, Basic had cost the Government $140 million, and it had its own town, named Henderson, of 1,000 houses. Only the Geneva steel plant ($200 million) and the Big and Little Big Inch pipelines ($146 million) had cost more. Incendiary bombs made from Basic's magnesium had helped raze Tokyo. But in peacetime, the War Assets Administration found it the whitest of elephants...
...forceful study called "Our Image" of a giant with a boulder for a head...