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Down with Boston! Governors of four of the nation's big wool-producing states -Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming-began a concerted drive to break Boston's domination of the wool business. Colorado's Governor William Lee Knous said they would meet in November to discuss the possibilities of processing western wool in the West...
Last week, after years of deathlike quiet, the boarded-up ghost town had stirred in its creaking coffin-and emerged into a new life. In a three-day-long celebration, Aspen (pop. 1,500) marked its rebirth as a skiing center. Colorado's Governor Lee Knous gave Edith Robinson, daughter of Aspenjs mayor, a push off to open the is,000-ft. ski tow, longest in the world (see cut). With six 14,000-foot peaks near by, plenty of dry, powdery snow, and multi-million-dollar backing, Aspen was out to become the top winter-sport playground...
...plenty of Democratic celebrants. Ol' Gene Talmadge was back in the saddle in Georgia. Big Jim Folsom took over in Alabama. Cattleman Roy Turner won in Oklahoma and Publisher-Banker William P. Lane in Maryland. The biggest surprise victor was Colorado's twangy Chief Justice William Lee Knous, who ousted a do-nothing Republican administration...