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Hough in Denver is a veteran newspaperman who has reported for TIME on a part-time basis ever since 1932. He is the author of two books on Rocky Mountain lore—headed the Colorado Writers Project which prepared a monumental local history of the state—has also lived in Wyoming, Montana and New Mexico, visited every state from the Missouri to the Pacific. And in Seattle TIME'S Paul O'Neil has covered practically every big story that has broken in the Pacific Northwest in ten years—says his newshunting has "taken him to every hamlet in the state at least twice."