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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:19:00 PST
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- From: Emily Horning <ECZ5EJH%UCLAMVS.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- Subject: Re: What's in a name?
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- > >I'm interested in real-life indicator names. Like a realtor named Carol
- > >Hill, a weatherman named John Winter, etc. Does anyone have any data on
- > >whether real indicator names drive people's destinies?
- >
- > Storm Field is a weatherman for WABC-TV in New York. And that's his real
- > name (his father, Dr. Frank Field, is a weatherman for WCBS-TV).
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- And we have Dallas Raines, KABC, channel 7.
-
- > --Aaron
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- I mentioned this one the last time, but the GP in my father's home town of
- Wallace, Idaho, was Dr. George Bonebrake.
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- Emily
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