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...swinger like his dad, young Frank doesn't drink or gamble. So the merchandised vices of Hurrah's held little interest for him, and he had been spending his free time in his room in one of the motels that Harrah's maintains for performers and guests, watching TV, drinking Cokes, and listening to tapes of his own performances and his father's, whose way with a lyric has long been to him the canon of perfection...
This Haarlem is in The Netherlands, and from there came Catharine Ladders, 21, last year's Miss World, who will become the bride next year of Hip Swinger Chubby Checker, 22. The future Mrs. Ernest Evans (Chubby's real name; the stage handle was chosen in frank imitation of Fats Domino) met her husband-to-be while he was doing a show in the Philippines last January. "He's different," she says. "He's the quiet type, and I like the way he hums around." Now that was a twist, and it brought a response...
...March. Forgotten until recently, Tarzan and the Madman is the 25th in the series, was chiseled out by Edgar Rice Burroughs in 1940, ten years before his death. It tells how a downed pilot who looks like Tarzan has amnesia and naturally concludes that he's the African swinger himself. Throughout the jungle of circumstance, the real Tarzan is pleased to stand up for his amnesiac imitation when the going gets tough. After all, he has his image to think of. He's set for a 1964 TV series...
...must now take a verbal swing at G.O.P. National Chairman and "Chief Swinger" William Miller for his remarks about what goes on at the White House...
Decorum & Dignity. The birthday party also turned out to be a free-swinging attack on Jack Kennedy, his Administration, his family, his cronies and his family's cronies. G.O.P. National Chairman William Miller was the chief swinger. "Do you recall," he cried, "Sinatra types infesting 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the Eisenhower days? Or twisting in the historic East ballroom? Or wild swimming-pool antics shocking to all the country? Or all-night parties in foreign lands? No, you do not recall such things, because from 1953 to 1961 there was a sense of propriety and fitness and decorum...