Word: denver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning last week, Valmore W. Bourque, 20, of South Hadley Falls, Mass., lugged a suitcase up to Patrick Hall on Denver's Lowry Air Force Base and reported to a sleepy master sergeant. Said Bourque: "I figure it would be something to tell my kids I was the first air cadet in the U.S." Sixteen hours and 45 minutes later, Bourque and 305 other members of the first class at the U.S. Air Force Academy were sound asleep after a double-timed day that included drill, a dedication ceremony, physical examinations (one cadet had measles), lectures, assignments, hazing, uniform...
...Phillips Academy and soon began picking up degrees - from Brown University (A.B.) and Columbia (M.A.) in English, from the University of Madrid (D. en L. ) in Medieval Spanish and Arabic, from Harvard (Ph.D.) for a thesis on the Arabian philosopher Avicenna. In 1940 he moved to the University of Denver as an assistant professor. This changed everything...
...Denver offered little that was stimulating in Emrich's hobby of Arabic but much in the field of folk music. Drinking in the splintery, bare saloons of the lonely valley towns, he heard and delighted in the hoarse old songs of the gold prospectors and the mining camps...
...heading theaterwards. Then, with grandiose ease, it swept by stages across the American continent and its time zones. It hopped to Chicago, where diners looked out at Lake Michigan. It came down to an Iowa farm, where the cows were just getting in from pasture. It moved on to Denver, where office workers were homeward bound, jumped to Salt Lake City on the other side of the Rockies and on to the Pacific, swelling with awesome beauty in the setting sun. This cross-continental panorama of a nation, simultaneously caught at work and play within the same bracket of time...
...Smith and Franklin F. Berg took - Rookie Cop Leo S. Markowski out to show him how to question suspicious persons, picked out two soldiers who happened to be wandering by, promptly drew admissions from them that they were AWOL from Fort Ord, had committed burglaries in Las Vegas, Denver and Nebraska, had a gun hidden in a nearby alley for use in a planned filling-station holdup...