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Butchered News. Red opens his half-hour radio show by playing one of a variety of roles: either he is Louella Blanchard retailing gossip or Lowell Blanchard butchering the news; sometimes he is a hayseed called Barefoot Bogardus or a private eye known as The Flat Man ("I'm 9 ft. 12 in. tall and weigh 67 Ibs. When I stand sideways I disappear."). But the big deal in the show comes when Red takes his "raving microphone" and interviews his hepcat audience against a background of teen-age screams. Most of his fans identify themselves with Blanchardisms...
...London apartment, robbery-prone (three times in four years) Skating Star Sonja Henie woke with a scream, then dashed into the street in a barefoot, unsuccessful pursuit of thieves who had stripped her bedroom of an Aleutian mink coat ($18,000), an ermine coat ($7,000), a mink jacket ($3,500), two gold compacts, $840 in cash...
...village in western India. His given name was Vinayak, but Gandhi changed it to Vinoba in later years, and the disciple accepted it as his name. At ten the boy began his career of holy man: he made a resolution of lifelong celibacy, gave up sweets and started going barefoot. Gandhi, who in young manhood was a lawyer and a comfortably married man, admired Vinoba's untarnished virginity. The Mahatma frequently said that his only regret in life was that he had known the delights...
...hero of A Summer Day has a heartache he did not help to make. He is a small Indian boy, an orphan shipped barefoot and alone from Missouri to an Indian school in Oklahoma. This is the kind of situation that is usually played for a lump in the throat, but Author Stafford never plays that way. What the reader gets from A Summer Day is a dry mouth and a hot, hopeless feeling of sympathy for the boy in his loneliness...
...shirts, try the standard jersey or polo shirt, or perhaps even a terrycloth sweater, ideal for beach-wear, since it can double for a towel. As for shoes, go barefoot, if possible, and if not, try tennis shoes...