Word: fetchit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bowing off stage in a Brooklyn theater, the films' onetime Spirit of Fatigue, Stepin Fetchit, bowed into the waiting arms of two warrant officers. He was booked under his right name, Lincoln Perry, on a paternity charge...
Fair-haired Brooke is an Alabamian, moves with the speed of Stepin Fetchit. To rival golfers last week he became known as the "Virginia Creeper." But, creeping or no, Virginia's Brooke, during six days of rain, swamped one adversary after another. After Burke, went Princeton's Arnold Zimmerman, Mississippi's Gary Middlecoff, Holy Cross's Eddie Foy.* In the 36-hole final, Brooke faced the toughest foe of all: bespectacled Harry Hoyt Haverstick of Swarthmore...