Word: lickin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...familiar white suit at a Louisville party in his honor. Fifteen years ago Sanders sold the fried chicken business he started in 1956, but he still travels 250,000 miles yearly promoting the product for present owner Heublein, Inc. Lest anyone think he's less than finger-lickin' good at his job, the colonel led his admiring crowd in a rousing version of My Old Kentucky Home. · In 25 years, Playboy has uncovered 305 Playmates, reason enough for Publisher Hugh Hefner to invite them to a grand anniversary bash. Among the 136 who came was blond Janet...
...like to claim that the major chains are taking the adventure out of eating, that motorists are settling for Colonel Sanders instead of discovering the modest little boardinghouse that makes the best quiche Lorraine this side of Provence. True, perhaps, but one reason drivers keep turning to the finger-lickin' chicken is that they have been burned so often at Mom's and similar places. Restaurant surprises disappoint far oftener than they delight...
...want to be connected with anything that fizzles," drawls Kentucky Fried Chicken Colonel Norland Sanders, 86, fearful that a musical version of his life might prove to be a turkey. So Sanders, whose own career fizzled until 1956, when he launched the first of his "finger lickin' good" chicken eateries, has not invested any money in Kentucky Lucky, a new stage show scheduled for a fall debut. Conceived by Writer James Chappin and directed by Jerry Adler (My Fair Lady), the show will tell the colonel's story in song and dance. Sanders doubts that it will help...
...crackdown by requiring masseuses to pay $300 for a two-month training course and produce letters of recommendation from five solid citizens. One result: a switch in operations to nude encounter groups, an "indoor nudist colony," and "outcall massage" services like Hollywood's Chick Delight, which advertises "finger-lickin' good" women who home-deliver "snack boxes of breasts, thighs, white meat and dark." Another L.A. outcall service sets prices according to the skills and dimensions of the woman (one staffer was discounted to $25 because she was seven months pregnant...
Last week he brought a $122 million damage suit against Heublein, Inc., which controls Kentucky Fried. Not that he really needs the money. The Colonel in 1964 sold the system, as well as his "secret formula" and his "Finger Lickin' Good" slogan for $2 million, and earns $250,000 a year from TV commercials, salary ($40,000, now paid by Heublein) and other activities. He charges that Heublein has been pressuring potential purchasers of Claudia Sanders franchises. He claims that Heublein scared away his first prospect by threatening legal action for infringement of trademarks. Heublein retorts that the suit...