Tiger Woods

[sagehen]

Wilson Gray writes:
>I've just heard one of our loocal newsreaders describe Tiger Woods as
>"looking  _tan_." It reminded me of the time that a black student
>walked barefooted into the student center at Washintoon U. in St,
>Louis, moving a white student to quote, "Blessings on thee, little
>man! / Barefoot boy with CHEEK!" stopping himself before finishing the
>line with "... of tan!"

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Might also have been thinking of /Barefoot Boy with Cheek/, a humorous book
by Max Shulman  that came out in the '40s.  [Was Barefoot Boy  one of Jas
Whitcomb Riley's?  I remember having to memorize it in grade school, but
can't now call up any more lines.]
A. Murie