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When George Willis Spann went to work as a school janitor in Pueblo, Colo., he had no idea of staying long. "I figured I'd try it for 30 days," says he. "But then something happened." At the end of 30 days, George decided to try it for a year, and the years turned into decades. When anyone asked him why he stayed, George always had the same answer: "I got fascinated being with children...
...children of Pueblo also got fascinated being with "Pop" Spann. Each morning at opening time, he was there in his old striped trousers and black bow tie, waiting to greet them. If they cut themselves, he would bandage them. If someone broke a bicycle, he could always fix it. And when they wanted him to play with them, he was always willing, even though it meant staying long after closing time to get his own work done...
...taken an estimated $250,000 out of golf from prize money, sporting goods companies, movie and TV shorts, endorsements and royalties on equipment bearing her name. Now she dabbles in the stock market, owns the Tampa Golf Club, a 100-room Denver hotel, a 30-acre farm in Pueblo, Colo., and manages to find time to serve as pro at the Skycrest Country Club near Chicago...
...Clifford Frederick Bramer was receiving patients at the Pueblo (Colo.) Clinic when the nurse announced that a Mrs. Vernon Hawley wanted to see him. Mrs. Hawley was a big woman (220 Ibs.); awkwardly she got ready and lay on the examining table. A large mass protruded from her abdomen and hung down to her thighs. At first Dr. Bramer thought it was a tumor. Then he thought of hernia. Closer examination disclosed the outline of a baby. He asked why she had come to see him, and Izene Hawley calmly replied. "This thing is heavy and I'm past...
When Izene Hawley figured that she was past due, a friend talked her into visiting the Pueblo Clinic. Dr. Bramer called in other physicians and they decided to do a Caesarean section. But before her appointment for surgery, Mrs. Hawley had cramps, was admitted to Parkview Episcopal Hospital. When Dr. Bramer got to her, the baby's foot had slipped back through the abdominal wall. With surprising ease, the baby's body was massaged out of the uterus, through the incision to a fairly normal delivery. Thelma Jean Hawley weighed...