Word: denver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think that we the people are entitled to know from the Republican Party before the election just who will run the Government-and where the capital will be situated-Maryland, Georgia, Palm Springs, Denver, Gettysburg, Washington, D.C., or the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda...
Bridey Murphy-born A.D. 1798, died 1864-first appeared in print in the fall °f J954, soon after a chance remark by Robert Cast, an attorney of Pueblo (pop. 80,800). Said Cast to his brother-in-law, William J. ("Bark") Barker of the Denver Post's Sunday supplement Empire: "Do you think there might be a story in a guy who has discovered that a woman in Pueblo lived an earlier life in Ireland in the 1800s?" Replied Newsman Barker: "Hell, yes." He wrote the story. Empire ran it in three installments as "The Strange Search...
...same curiosity drove others to try to check Bridey's story in Ireland. To get the Denver Post back on top of the story it had launched, Post Publisher Palmer Hoyt sent Reporter Barker on a three-week prowl through Irish graveyards and libraries. This week, in its Sunday edition, the Post printed Barker's 20,000-word report. He listed many a point that checked out in Bridey's favor-mostly knowledge of expressions, customs and legends, all of which (though Barker die not say so) could have lodged in Mrs. Tighe's subconscious mind...
...speech did little to ease the tension, for the 19 had come in search of fame. The winners of local singing contests held throughout Colorado, Wyoming and Utah, they gathered in Denver to compete in one of this year's seven regional eliminations for the Met's Auditions of the Air. The rewards for the winners are scholarships and for some contestants an eventual chance to sing at the Met. For its part the Met gets an annual look at the best talent in the U.S., has in the Auditions' 16 years panned such vocal gold...
...soprano with long blonde hair, no fewer than six tenors (more tenors than Gutman had encountered in all his auditions in Seattle, Tulsa, the Twin Cities and Chicago put together). Almost every singer had got some of his or her basic experience singing in churches; some have sung with Denver's energetic young Greater Denver Opera Association. A few studied at Manhattan's Juilliard school...