Word: checker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This Haarlem is in The Netherlands, and from there came Catharine Ladders, 21, last year's Miss World, who will become the bride next year of Hip Swinger Chubby Checker, 22. The future Mrs. Ernest Evans (Chubby's real name; the stage handle was chosen in frank imitation of Fats Domino) met her husband-to-be while he was doing a show in the Philippines last January. "He's different," she says. "He's the quiet type, and I like the way he hums around." Now that was a twist, and it brought a response...
...campus is healthy, both sexes agree. (Too healthy some authorities fear. As a result regulations forbid students to sit less than eighteen inches from each other on the college lawn. And Hunter enforces this rule; a student explained that the college employs one woman as the school's "necker checker...
...meeting, Mrs. Bunting urged 'Cliffies in South House to stop attacking the experimental lunch set-up because of the checker system. She stressed that the checkers' presence was a completely unrelated consideration...
...other elusive subject is Morris Markin, who learned how to keep his mouth shut during the taxi wars in Chicago in the lurid 1920s. For 31 weeks, Chicago Correspondent Miriam Rumwell got the run-around when she tried to reach him. Finally she turned up at his Checker cab factory in Kalamazoo, was told by David Markin that he didn't know his father's whereabouts. But after a two-hour conversation, in which she apparently passed some kind of test, David asked, "Would you like to see my father?" Reports Miss Rumwell: "We went into a room...
...real big, I'll charge a dollar for my picture, and I'll send you a big stack, and you can keep 500 for every one you send out. Saaay, pretty girl! You got a record player, honey? Twist records, rock 'n' roll, Chubby Checker...