Word: hometowner
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...Hometown: Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means a whale’s vagina...
...fridge when I was cutting the grass,” he says. “I think I was 13. It made me feel really cool. It made me feel more like my dad.”Eisele grew up in a German family in the hometown of the Anheuser-Busch companies in St. Louis, MO.He says his first taste of “good beer”—a Harpoon IPA—did not come until college. He further developed an appreciation for the beverage during his sophomore year abroad in Australia.As an injured football recruit...
...Hometown: Palos Verdes, Calif...
Ever since he launched his campaign in Lincoln's hometown of Springfield, Obama has been happy to have himself compared with the original skinny outsider from Illinois. But as this race goes on, the image of another Illinois icon looms. The shape of the Pennsylvania electorate, and the prospect of a contentious convention, evokes 1952, when Adlai Stevenson--the darling of "every thinking person," as one woman later famously phrased it--captured a fiercely contested nomination by putting the urban and the urbane blocs together. But he never won over the white working class, and that's why there never...
BECOMING CHARLTON HESTON He was born John Carter, on Oct. 24, 1924, in Evanston, Ill. (He would take his stage name from his mother's maiden name and his stepfather's surname.) At his hometown college, Northwestern, he played in student films as Peer Gynt and Marc Antony; already he was set in the heroic mold. In 1944 he married Lydia, also a Northwestern student, and joined the Army Air Force, serving two years as a radio operator. On Broadway in 1947, he played in Antony and Cleopatra with Katharine Cornell (who, the year before, had done Candida with...