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...companies asking about endorsement deals, including one that phoned her 20 minutes after he stepped on the podium. "That's unheard of for a male gymnast," says Shade. "I've got a lot of new best friends right now." But Hamm, who grew up on a farm in Waukesha, Wis., enjoys a low-bar profile. "He's not going to turn into a marketer," says Sandy Hamm, Paul's father. "His job is to compete, not promote." Although next time, he could do his mom and the judges a favor by staying...
PAUL HAMM AGE 21 HOMETOWN Waukesha, Wis. EVENT Gymnastics THE DRAMA Hamm won the world all-around title in 2003, the first U.S. man to do so. His strength is the high bar--he's the only gymnast who will do three release moves in a row off that apparatus in Athens. THE COMPETITION The big challenge now comes from Asia, not Eastern Europe. China is intent on retaining its Olympic team title, and in the race for all-around champ, Hamm will have to repeat his historic feat and outscore Yang Wei of China and Hiroyuki Tomita of Japan...
...other Wisconsin wackiness, a Waukesha fam bought a new house Thursday only to see it engulfed in flames in less than...
...protesters: get down on your knees, and thank the thousands of men and women who gave their lives for your right of free speech over all the years of this country's existence. JANET DETTLAFF Waukesha...
...born Lester Polsfuss (the family soon simplified the name to Polfus) in Waukesha, 18 miles west of Milwaukee. Encouraged by his mother, he learned piano, guitar and harmonica. His acquisitive intelligence led him into all sorts of precocious experiments, like poking new holes in player-piano music to make new melodies, or, at 13, disconnecting a console radio speaker and attaching a phonograph pickup. He bought his first Gibson guitar, an L-5 acoustic, which he promptly electrified. In local performances, he would wire his guitar to radios stage right and left: voil?, stereo! 'If you can be an engineer...