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Sixteen Stabs. Yet, to true aficionados of the world's only blood art, El Cordobés is the death of the afternoon. "He's like Chubby Checker playing Bach," sniffs one ardent detractor. "It's pop bullfighting...
...didn't. Instead, rock 'n' roll did. Rejuvenation came in 1960 on the wings of a king-sized twister named Chubby Checker. A onetime Philadelphia chicken plucker, Chubby threw his tubby hips into high gear, and issued an invitation: "C'mon, baby, let's do the twist...
...serving time for armed robbery and escorting a 14-year-old Apache girl across a state line for "immoral purposes," Berry was recently granted a reprieve by his parole board in St. Louis and is now one of the most popular singers on the rock 'n' roll circuit. Chubby Checker is back pushing a new dance called the Freddie, a kind of side-straddle-hop routine...
...pound Daly, probably the most bruising body-checker in the League, received 35 of a possible 50 votes in the balloting for the Ivy all-star team...
Used to transport graduate students who have classes at different schools on the same day, the service consists of chartered Checker Cab limousines and a Falcon station wagon, running every hour on the half hour, Monday through Friday...