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The "Old Town" (West Colorado Springs) was founded in 1859 by brawling goldseekers. At the town's first church service the minister found only one worshiper because everyone else was out hanging a Mexican horse thief. Later, however, the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad decided to cash in on...
First business was to elect Young their new chairman - at $1 a year. Next they named Alfred E. Perlman, 51, executive vice president of the Denver & Rio Grande Western, as the Central's new president (TIME, June 7) and chief executive officer.-Take a Chance. Young and Perlman had...
As the tallying dragged on into this week, Young appeared supremely confident, was already talking about his new president for the Central, hinted that it might be the man he had dinner with the night before the meeting: A. E. Perlman, executive vice president of the Denver & Rio Grande Western...
In these days, it is a backroads traveler indeed who is not able to buy a copy of TIME any place from the Rio Grande to the Arctic Circle. The job of getting the right number of magazines to the right place at the right time rests in the hands...
The sun-cracked bed of the Rio Grande River filled with a boiling torrent, and in the flat lands of the lower valley, 4,000 people were driven from their homes by the rising waters. Three cities and towns were flooded; the brown tide covered 50,000 acres. Most of...