Word: waukesha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Koepp has applied his inquisitive mind to the news since he graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and took a job as a reporter at the Waukesha (Wis.) Freeman (circ. 23,000). In 1980 he wrote an award-winning series that revealed how a small-town mayor was determined to spend $6 million of taxpayers' money to dredge a local lake, in part so his friends could use it for water-skiing. Koepp moved to TIME in 1981, and in five years as a writer he probed such topics as the declining quality of American service, national gridlock...
...wait! Historically -- one learns just in the nick of time -- balance is what nearly every account of this yearly meeting has begged. It is not all weirdness going down. It is, in the words of Dale Brown, a ventriloquist from Waukesha, Wis., "a family affair aimed at educating young and amateur ventriloquists, promoting the art of ventriloquism, and providing a spotlight for some of the country's best-known professionals." Further, according to Brown and other organizers of the event, the vents (for that is what they call one another) are a little ticked off at being picked...
...president, Bob Biggs--the BoDeans are built for the long haul. It wasn't so long ago, after all, that Neumann and his buddy Sammy Llanas (a.k.a. Sammy BoDean), now 25, played one night a week, just for drinks, in the window of a joint in their hometown of Waukesha. "There was a bar in one room and a connecting room with a couple of pool tables," Sammy remembers. "Sometimes there'd be a couple of guys shooting a game, but usually we played to nobody...