Word: denver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opened its clubhouse to 320 weddings so far this year, scout around for parties, conventions and tournaments, anything to make a dollar. Even some of the oldest clubs X-ray a prospective member's bank account first, his social position second. Says a member of the very exclusive Denver Country Club: "It is true that some of our nice members are the biggest stinkers in town. But heavens, we do not know this to be officially true...
...class of club is starting up owned by businessmen, who frankly aim at big memberships as the road to survival. In Dallas, eight new clubs have opened since the prewar era, and most of them run one membership drive after another. Four more are being formed. In Denver, the Pinehurst Country Club will open next spring on 300 acres to cater to the new class of up-by-the-bootstraps lawyers, engineers, doctors and almost anyone else who wants in. Says Manager Ray E. Hubbard: "Our typical member will be a man of 34 who is buying a good house...
Adult Western. In Wichita, Kans., Denver Bland won the Democratic nomination for Sedgwick County sheriff, soundly defeating Candidate J. Wyatt Earp...
MONTGOMERY WARD opened its first shopping-center retail store in Denver. Over next two years it will spend $84 million to go into 17 other shopping centers...
Without Relish. In Denver, police impounded Lorentz Haugseth's car when they found that its inspection sticker was the label from a can of pork and beans...