Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LaSalle Quartet got started four years ago when its members graduated from Manhattan's Juilliard School, and stepped right into a position as quartet-in-residence at Colorado College, Colorado Springs. In Leader Walter Levin's words, they quickly discovered that "there just weren't any audiences who knew about chamber music or cared about it or would turn out to hear it" in that part of the country. But the group was young (average age: 29) and hardworking ("You've got to give the public the best there is all the time...
They played for anybody who would listen, often without pay, and soon hit on the idea of lecture-concerts. Since its Colorado debut, the LaSalle has given 150 of them, and as many regular concerts. Last academic year it played for the public schools in Colorado Springs, and soon found students dragging their parents to evening concerts. Now the members of the group are local celebrities; they are stopped on the streets by autograph hunters...
...even gets to 17-and-a-quarter, a softspoken, churchgoing G.I. turns up at the Ferrers' home to repair some V-bomb damage, and Mr. Britain-to-be becomes Mr. Also Ran. Since the American boy proves to be the son and heir of a well-heeled Colorado dry-goods merchant, lucky Linda not only flies off to the U.S. at novel's end, but also slips the narrow class bonds that made her content, at novel's start, to read her future in a humble plate of fish & chips...
...morning after a hurried breakfast with the Cabinet, the President flew off to Amarillo, Texas for a fast personal inspection of the parched plains and a conference with the governors of six drought-ridden states: Texas' Allan Shivers, Colorado's Dan Thornton, New Mexico's Edwin Mechem, Oklahoma's Johnston Murray, Kansas' Edward Arn, Arkansas' Francis Cherry...
...horses hurtling out from the screen. There is also a story about a gallant little band of cavalrymen who set out, shortly after the Civil War, to rescue two white girls captured by the Indians, and end up triumphing over the redskins in a last-ditch stand at Colorado's Feather River...