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...there were only 1000 members of the German Association for Free Body Culture; today there are some 50,000, as well as several hundred thousand freelance cultists who loll in the buff on the 80 officially sanctioned nudist beaches specially set aside for them by the West German government. Of the organized German nudists, most are laborers, tradesmen and white-collar workers. But not all. Clad only in signet ring and cigar, some of Germany's richest and most famed industrialists also frolic in the buff at exclusive North Sea beaches. What they all have in common, explains...
...onetime bunny in the buff for Playboy, Hollywood Starlet Jill St. John, 21, tried terribly hard to keep up with her auto-racing husband, Five & Dime Heir Lance Reventlow, 26, only issue of Barbara Hutton's six marriages. Lance's bride even rode a motorcycle to get the feel of a wheel, but when it hit 25 m.p.h., Jill came tumbling after. Finally their two-year marriage went all aflivver and Jill sued for separate maintenance, demanding all of their communal property. Definitely not for her: the 1961 Porsche, Mercedes 3005L, 1936 Rolls-Royce, slinky Scarab racer...
...living it up. In 1911, for instance, the Santa Fe's De Luxe between Chicago and Los Angeles provided passengers with tubs and showers, a library, stock quotations and news reports, and the services of a barber, manicurist, lady's maid and train secretary. And, reports Railroad Buff Lucius Beebe, "at the top of the Cajon Pass out of San Bernardino, uniformed messengers boarded the De Luxe with bouquets of fresh flowers for every lady passenger and alligator billfolds for the gentlemen...
Died. Admiral Arseni Grigorevich Golovko, 55, No. 2 man of the Soviet navy, an ebullient submarine buff whose northern fleet sank 700,000 tons of Nazi shipping in 15 months in the early stages of World War II, last year bragged that the Reds have more missile-armed atomic subs than the U.S.; after a long illness; in Moscow...
...four-hour tour of Gettysburg, Civil War Buff Karl Barth, 76, astonished his guides with a fusillade of little-known facts. Led to the spot where the first large body of Confederate troops had deployed, the Swiss theologian smiled knowingly, "Yes, that was [Major General Henry] Heth's group." Told that a Lutheran seminary in which he was lunching had been used as a Union observation post, he nonchalantly rattled off the name of Major General John Buford as the post's commander. Moving south, Barth paused on a battlefield near Richmond. Va., raised a century-old Yankee...