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Alabama's Governor James ("Big Jim") Folsom, the woman-kissin'est chief executive any state ever had, can play peckerwood better than any shoeless redneck out of the back country. When he campaigned for office, his "Strawberry Pickers," a hillbilly band, followed him everywhere. He waved what he called a "suds bucket" for contributions and shouted, "You furnish the suds and ah'll do the scrubbing"-i.e., clean up the state. He said he kissed 50,000 women during his campaign...
...teacher, a tall young Korean in a threadbare suit, whose Christian faith has given him courage to have doubts about Communism. Here are some ill-dressed students who feared conscription (men 19 to 25) into the Korean Communist Army. Here is a round-faced child of two, shoeless, sitting between the ties of the old railroad track. Her sad-eyed mother wearily joggles the baby on her back, then pulls the child to her feet and shuffles along the track with the other refugees going south...
...Shoeless...
...fascinating custom-taking off its shoes at dances. ... I wish to claim the honor for the people to whom I think it rightfully belongs-Minneapolis' own West High School. I started at West in the fall of 1943, and during my three years at West I danced shoeless at almost every dance. As did many others...
...going to leave in that blue police car down there. We'll take off like a P-38." The policemen chuckled. The third-floor cells had tool-proof bars, and six steel doors barred the only possible route of escape. But in the hours before dawn the shoeless prisoners began unlocking doors-with keys made from a wooden spoon and a toothbrush. They walked downstairs to the basement, crawled through a window, climbed into the blue police car and "took off like a P-38," while a startled cop banged away with his revolver...