Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colorado Springs schoolgirl who wanted to date the most popular man in Denver went to dinner and danced with Denver's Mayor James Quigg Newton...
Longenecker, 25, was a graduate of Colorado College, and a resident of Teledo, Ohio...
...Jack," proclaimed a Denver radio announcer at station-break time last week, "you're not in it, you're just not in it, I mean you're really not in it if you haven't joined the Colorado Air Guard. It's real nervous." "Down boy, don't bother me," said another voice. "The . . . Air Guard really sends me . . . Charlie, it's real gone...
Teenagers, versed in the lingo of bop, understood: the commercials were simply a hip method of recruiting for the Colorado Air National Guard, dreamed up by two enterprising admen. Sam Arnold and John McCall, who handle the Colorado Air Guard account. Arnold and McCall were discouraged at the dismal results of the recruiting disks they were getting from the Pentagon, decided they needed a new. pitch. Then they heard a record by Jive Spieler Jazzbo Collins (TIME, Sept. 14). Suddenly they were real gone...
...more than three weeks Arnold and McCall talked to disk jockeys and teenagers, practiced bop talk around the office. When they first tried the routine on Brigadier General Joseph C. Moffitt, commanding officer of the Colorado Air Guard (the 140th Fighter-Bomber Wing), he didn't quite dig the parradiddle. "He thought we had flipped our beanies. He was real square." But when he heard the first tape recording, the general "was real sent. He felt them...