Small-town celebrity birthplace of the week: Webster City, Iowa (current population about 8,000). Historical novelist MacKinlay Kantor was born there in 1904. Kantor's narrative poem "Glory for Me" was the basis of the classic 1946 film "The Best Years of Our Lives," which won seven Academy Awards.

The "Hollywood Suntan" is a symbol of stylish good health today, but it wasn't always so. In the 19th century, a suntan was the mark of a laborer who worked ...

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