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...meat came off the bottoms of my feet, and all the meat came off my toes and the bones were sticking out." One day in February, a North Korean nurse entered his room with what looked like garden shears. She snipped off eight of his fleshless toe bones, leaving only the two great toes. "I broke them off later with my fingers," said Treffery...
Best Foot Forward. In Birmingham, William Duncan took his new power lawn mower out for a trial run, mowed off his left big toe...
...round of human experience. His themes are birth and death, the pain and joy of living and loving, animal vitality balanced against spiritual inner lights. At his weakest, he can and does riffle his images and similes like a cardsharp. At his strongest and best, he makes his poetry toe the line of his creed: "Man be my metaphor." In the 22 years since his first poem was published, Dylan Thomas has added mystic affirmation to his lyric rage. Almost as impressive as his growing to maturity is his growing acceptance and readership. Since Collected Poems was published in Britain...
...solid three months' practice on her diving to capture the championship of Laurel Beach (Conn.) from a far shapelier 18-year-old. Said Mary Jane: "They gave the cup to Ros for grit, not form." Learning the raptures of hard work, she plugged away at toe dancing until, after one long session, she could cry dramatically: "Look! My toes are bleeding...
Rash Venture. In Santa Rosa, Calif., Store Executive Charles DeMore good-naturedly helped Boy Scout Troop 25 set up a camping scene exhibit in his display window as part of a citywide contest, spent the next two days in bed nursing a head-to-toe poison-oak rash, learned that the exhibit had won the first prize for, among other things, "realism...