Word: shoelessness
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HOUSE OF JAPAN. Fairgoers can dine in traditional Japanese fashion - shoeless, seated on tatami mats - or at regular tables and chairs. The food, in any case, is tempura and sukiyaki, cooked on the table. A stage show stars some of Japan's best dancers. In the colorful costumes of samurai, geisha and fishermen, they are adept at everything from kabuki to the twist...
HOUSE OF JAPAN. Shoeless, seated at a low table, the happy diner is served hot sake, then a kimonoed doll of a waitress kneels and cooks sukiyaki. Meanwhile, entertainers in the colorful costumes of samurai, geisha and fishermen dance every thing from kabuki to the twist, and an Oriental chanteuse, Momotaro Akasaka, sings sonorous torch songs...
Like many young instrument painters fitted in with New York, Mohan Samant, 37, lives at an unfashionable address in a loft building above a street thrumming with trucks. Unlike other young painters, he begins each day not at the easel but sitting shoeless and cross-legged atop a low podium, drawing out the eerie strains of his native Indian music on the sarangi, a chunky instrument fitted with 29 strings. Says the artist, who though an expatriate is ranked as one of his country's most modern painters, "I always felt at one with things that have a sense...
...holding T.C.U. to 34 yds. on the ground while Texas Quarterback Duke Carlisle mixed straightforward runs with pass-option plays to gain an economical 150 yds. In true Royal style, Texas' sophomore backs Phil Harris and Tommy Stockton scored twin touchdowns on little-bitty three-yard runs; shoeless Placekicker Tony Crosby added the insult by running his string of conversions to 24 straight and toeing a 42-yd. field goal in his stockinged feet. At game's end, the score was Texas 17, T.C.U. 0-and Royal's Longhorns, the only unbeaten and untied major college team...
...terrace of his villa, La Capponcina (Little Capon), overlooking Monte Carlo, William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, leans on a Malacca cane. He looks as old as he is: 84. Age has bleached his skin to wrinkled parchment; one foot is shoeless, a concession to gout; a floppy, broad-brimmed straw hat shields him from the hot Mediterranean sun. But the sun has not been up much longer than the Beaver, and he is not there merely to bask...