I assumed I was interviewing a beauty queen, little was I aware I would meet a hero. It was 1958 when Marilyn Van Derbur was selected Miss America, while 50 million viewers watched on television. It was the most coveted honor of most girls' dreams at the time. Asked what the "pageant scene" entailed 50 years ago, Marilyn, whose last name now is Atler, laughed, "Are you kidding me?
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J Madden is palpitating with pre-opening enthusiasm, his smile stretching from ear to ear as his small, limbered frame bounds up the stairs, leaving me in the dust of construction chaos, gasping for air.
"I can promise you that you won't see anything else like this in Denver," he says, reaching the top and gesturing toward the sweeping, curtained glass walls of windows, their panes flooded by late afternoon sunlight.
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