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The Press: Suppressed & Unsuppressed

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“What is your suppressed desire?” the Denver Post teasingly asked its 226,807 readers—in the interests of circulation promotion, not psychiatry. Last week, having received nearly 1,000 answers, the Post announced the eleven winners in its “A Suppressed Desire Contest,” and arranged to satisfy each desire (for a total cost of $34.50, thanks to the cooperation of Denver merchants and others, including the Pentagon). The winners:

¶A bus driver who wanted to treat his passengers to a dinner and a show spent an evening out with ten of them.

¶ Two housewives who yearned to appear with a symphony orchestra got their wish when one directed the Denver Symphony (in Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King) and the other sang (Arditi’s Il Bacio) with the orchestra accompanying.

¶ A high-school boy who longed to shoot the ornaments off a Christmas tree was taken to the police pistol range, where an ornamented tree was set up for a target.

¶ A Colorado Springs schoolgirl who wanted to date the most popular man in Denver went to dinner and danced with Denver’s Mayor James Quigg Newton.

¶ A crippled woman got the ride she wanted on a ski lift, and rode down on a rescue toboggan for a dividend thrill.

¶ Mrs. Walter R. Fraley, who wanted to run a manually operated railroad handcar, was satisfied by the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad which provided the car for the occasion.

¶ A young wife who wanted to see her husband in flashy sports clothes got a complete outfit at a Denver haberdashery.

¶A 68-year-old grandfather got a ride he wanted in a jet plane through arrangements with the Pentagon, happily remarked after his flight: “It sure has got cultivating corn beat all to the dickens!”

¶ A young mother got the full night’s uninterrupted sleep and breakfast in bed she wanted, in Denver’s Albany Hotel.

¶ An economy-minded housewife who had always wanted free rein in a supermarket was turned loose with her family of six, loaded up with $69.87 worth of fancy groceries.

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