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Each boot is a leather "saddle" which supports Ferrer's thigh, knee and upper leg when his knees are bent. The boots themselves are supported by a canvas shoulder harness, which pulls the calves of both legs tightly against his thighs. Fitted to the bottom of the knees are fake shoes. Obviously, only camera angles which do not show Ferrer's real feet (i.e., front and close-up views) can be used. Since the boots are tight and painful-pressure on his kneecaps cuts off blood circulation-Ferrer wears them for only 20 minutes at a time, keeps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Too Tight Toulouse | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...second in the 100-meter dash, then won the shotput and the 400-meter run in his fastest time, 50.2 sec. In the high jump he placed third with a 6-ft.-2.81-in. leap, a shade off his best ever. But in the broad jump he pulled a thigh muscle and placed sixth. At day's end he was running 27 points behind the record pace he had set in the Olympic tryouts back home in Tulare, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Decathlon Sweep | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...brought under similar control. Anyone can buy as much as he can afford and carry it home in his pocket. It might cost him $500,000 an ounce, but for a mere $3,000 he can get enough to burn through his pocket and flesh and well into his thigh bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atomic Medicine: THE GREAT SEARCH FOR CURES ON A NEW FRONTIER | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

First there was lolanthe, an Italian baron's daughter, who "clung to him grinding her mouth against his so that he felt bruised, her mouth, and the whole warm length of her, silken clad, so that he was scalded breast and thigh, shaken terrified kindled deathlost uncaring thinking for this I will be killed and at the same time that it was worth the dying, and boldly he freed his hands from about her waist and pushing aside her one garment caressed her bare flesh roughly almost brutally as though she were a peasant girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love Without Commas | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...bitter blow for National Committeeman Roosevelt, who backed General Eisenhower and tried to ditch Truman in 1948, got let down by Truman in 1952. Nothing seemed to be going right for him. Before the week was out, a squirrel ran up his pants leg and bit his right thigh. Moaned Jimmy, after a nurse at the Beverly Hills emergency hospital cauterized the wound: "It seems things are getting tougher for Democrats-all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Squirrel Prey | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

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