Word: barefooted
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...jungle shrine in Ceylon last week, a group of local sadhus celebrated a rite of Hindu holy men: walking barefoot over a bed of glowing coals. To the Rev. Eric Robinson, a British Methodist missionary, it was the opportunity he had long been waiting for. Pulling off his shoes and socks, he stepped on the coals, walked the length of the burning pit himself. The doctor's verdict: severe burns on the feet, which confined Missionary Robinson to his bed for a week...
...Barefoot Boy. In his boyhood, Dick was a source of some family embarrassment. He wouldn't wear shoes. When the neighbors saw him walking around on cold days wearing a hat and overcoat but no shoes, some of them thought his parents couldn't or wouldn't buy him any. Not until he was twelve was he consistently shod. At 54 he still likes to pad barefoot around the farm when he is home, and around the house when he is in Washington. Says he: "I still don't like slippers...
...diamond drama from its subject, the picture poses a rather odd and artificial triangle: Dizzy loves both his wife (Joanne Dru) and baseball. More authentic but with no higher cinematic batting average is the movie's climax: Dizzy triumphing over objections by teachers' organizations to his barefoot-boy grammar on the airwaves. Dan Dailey makes a likable Huck Finn in spikes, complete with such Dean-Arkansas accents as "slud into third base" and "the batter takes a stanch at the plate." In their own way, Joanne Dru's curves are as impressive as Dizzy...
...third witness took the stand and told how he had been beaten by Ramirez with a blackjack. Two boys who had once run away said that, when caught, they were made to walk barefoot for 8½ hours while guards rode behind them in a truck. Other runaways' heads were shaved and they were put to work, barefooted and bareheaded, in a patch of bullheads (a prickly form of sandbur). At the end of 18 days in the August sun, their heads were blistered, and one boy had blood poisoning from a wound on his foot...
...Angeles auditorium, a little girl gazed while Isadora Duncan, trailing a costume that resembled a set of colossal portieres, danced about the stage for the entire length of a Beethoven symphony. At curtain call La Duncan, scarcely winded, characteristically urged her exhausted audience to go right out and run barefoot through the hills. The little girl promptly took off her shoes and tried -to the exasperation of her mother, who spent several hours tweezing out the cactus spines...