Word: nudist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nudist magazines obscene, and therefore to be barred from the mails? No, said Post Office Solicitor Frank J. Delaney last week, after the first formal obscenity hearing since Esquire was cleared in 1946. In covering news among the uncovered, Naturel Herald of Sacramento had printed pictures of naked men & women at sunbathing camps. The pictures, the Post Office ruled, were "small, inoffensive and not posed for salacious effect." At the hearing, Herald Publisher Ivan Brovont apologized for his hoarse, thick voice; he had caught a bad cold, he said, from wearing clothes...
Love Story. Near San Diego, Ray Bartholomew and Helen Tennant fell in love at first sight, put on their clothes and left the nudist colony for their honeymoon...
Advertisement. Near Olympia, Wash., the "Fun in the Sun" nudist camp expelled a female member who pub-crawled between sessions, livened things up by handing out photographs of herself in the nude...
...half-million readers of Tokyo's Sun Photo Times were shocked. Stark on Page One was a photo of a man & woman in an Indiana nudist camp...
Tokyo's five-month-old tabloid had a ready explanation for its shocker. Editor Yoshio Kaneko was just doing his best to teach his readers Western democratic habits. U.S. nudist camps are noted for purity of thought, said Sun Photo Times; "wouldn't it be a good idea if the members of Japan's Diet [which includes 39 women] deliberated . . . while naked...