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...Luciano Maniscalco, a San Francisco fisherman for 40 years, sat glumly in his bunting-draped home, surrounded by snapshots of his twelve children: one in the Navy, one in the Army, one in the Merchant Marine, one a Red Cross ambulance driver. Complained old Maniscalco, "I wanta be citizen, wanta fish. What I do now? Can't get job. Not a citizen. Can't get papers, can't write. My head she too damn hard...
...Frank Maniscalco, physical instructor, called everyone for exercises. A naked old gentleman introduced himself to the disguised police and asked why they did not take off their clothes. Both pleaded bashfulness. "It's like taking your first plunge. Once you're in, there's nothing to it," explained Fred Topel, manager of the establishment. Mr. Barr and Miss Brady remained clothed. Someone gave the policewoman a chair so that she could watch 20 minutes of ordinary calisthenics. After that "both men and women went into the pool entirely unclothed and swam about...
Thereupon the two police officers disclosed their identity and arrested Director Burke, Manager Topel and Instructor Maniscalco for "indecent exposure, openly outraging public decency, maintaining a public nuisance and permitting a building to be used for a nuisance...
Defendants Burke, Topel and Maniscalco appealed their conviction. Last week the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court declared: "In the light of the testimony adduced we believe that the conclusion reached by the dissenting justice of the Court of Special Sessions was based upon a solid foundation and the judgment entered should be reversed, the information dismissed and the fine remitted...
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