Boxing also gave Hemingway a lasting enthusiasm for prize fighting, material for stories, and a tendency to talk of his literary accomplishments later in boxing terms. Hemingway played high school football and learned to box, incurring permanent eye damage that caused the army to reject his repeated efforts to enlist in World War I. Ernest acquired his father's enthusiasm for guns and for fishing trips in the Michigan north woods, and that phase of his childhood formed important impressions reflected later in Nick Adams stories like "Indian Camp" and "Big Two-Hearted River." His mother, a devout, religious woman with considerable musical talent, hoped that Ernest would develop an interest in music. His father was a physician, and Ernest was the second of six children born to Dr. Hemingway's colorful life began in quiet Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, where he was born July21, 1899. A guard was found posted at the entrance with a notice, "Papa took good hotel. During World War II, when he was an American war correspondent, there was no doubt who had helped liberate the Ritz hotel in Paris. He often helped to further the legend in lively ways. In his later years, he delighted in being called "Papa" and had the reputation of a worldwide celebrities' celebrity, almost a legendary character. In his earlier years, Ernest Hemingway relished the nickname "Champ," which exemplified his roistering, hard-fisted outdoor life of adventure.
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