Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said he has high hopes for Brian Havey of Newton who has been sick and is not yet in condition; also for Bruce Nystrom and Bob Nelson. "Nelson's from my hometown, Mill Valley, Calif.," he noted, "he can't miss being good...
...Rotary Foundation Fellowships for Advanced Study requires application to the hometown Rotary Club, preferably during the summer. Closing date for application varies with the local Rotary Club...
...station, went on to Cincinnati Conservatory of Music with ambitions of becoming a professional concert baritone. "But the folks was havin' to scratch and grind for a few bucks," so Ernie went back to odd radio jobs. In California he joined Hillbilly Cliffie Stone's local show, Hometown Jamboree, and made some records (Mule Train, Shotgun Boogie) that led to a guest appearance in Las Vegas. "I was scared to death to play before an audience of sophisticates and gamblers." In 1955, with his driving, metronome sense of rhythm, he recorded a coal miner's bitter lament...
...manager, an ex-carnival barker called Colonel Tom Parker, said Elvis was too busy, instead touted Sands, who had traveled with Parker's road shows across the cow country. Kraft producers in New York flew Tommy in from Hollywood, where he was working on a TV show called Hometown Jamboree, and were pleased with his lush, throaty voice and easy acting style. After his job as the Singin' Idol, he began playing the title role in real life...
...rebels here protest against the everydayness, the drab practicality and utterly unfashionable common sense of the middle-class existence that is the national norm. This battle at Harvard against the colorless certainties and dread gaucherie of the bourgeois, (that is to say, the hometown) is fought for romanticism, for the unordinary and exotic--something to clothe the bare subsistence of bringing-up in a middle-class world...