Word: chitlins
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...From Chitlins to Champagne. No one is more dazzled by the sudden mass acceptance of the Rawls style than Rawls himself. Only four months ago, he completed what he hopes was his last engagement on the "chitlin circuit"-a string of small Negro nightclubs such as Cleveland's Corner Tavern, San Francisco's Sugar Hill, St. Louis' Riviera. In most of them, the singer perches on a dime-sized platform above the bar and tries to make himself heard above the jingle of the cash register and the jangle of the audience. And it was in just...
...debs elected Betty Cordon, 18, official No. 1 Glamor Girl of the new season. Particulars: her height is 5 ft. 1½ in., weight 100 lb., waist 21 in., hair blonde, eyes grey-green. Her father is a banker (assistant vice president of Manufacturers Trust Co.). She likes chitlin's (pig's intestines). Her comment on the election: "Ridiculous. . . . A glamor girl should be tall, dark, and svelte. . . . I don't know what my parents will think...