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...badmen on the Pacific Coast, Stewart and Kennedy start taking potshots at each other, and stage their final death grapple in a mountain torrent. At intervals in the gunfire, Stewart and Gambler Rock Hudson make sheep's eyes at Julia Adams and Lori Nelson. Funnyman Stepin' Fetchit, after a movie absence of 15 years, is back in Bend of the River as a molasses-slow deckhand on a river boat...
Married. Stepin Fetchit (real name: Lincoln Theodore Andrew Monroe Perry), 53, molasses-slow Negro comedy actor of the '30s (David Harum), now making a film comeback; and Bernice Sims, 35, housekeeper to a Catholic priest in Tulsa; he for the second time; in Tulsa...
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...
After the first round, however, the greater part of the gallery of 300 trudged around after lanky, woolly-topped Howard Wheeler of Atlanta-watched him tee up on the edge of a match folder, shuffle along the fairways in a Stepin Fetchit gait, plop down on the greens while waiting his turn to putt. A onetime professional whose occupation has been "just walkin' round" since he lost his job at Atlanta's Lincoln (Negro) Country Club in 1933. 29-year-old Howard Wheeler proved last week that he could still teach folks a few golfing tricks. With...