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...Supreme Court rejected a plea that nudism is a religion and therefore entitled to the protection of the Bill of Rights. The case was brought by a nudist group (which claimed that nudists "maintain high and strict moral standards") to challenge an Ohio anti-nudist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words & Works | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

Died. Yvonne Faith ("Cutest Little Nudist") Bacon, fiftyish, platinum blonde onetime hip-switcher (Earl Carroll's Vanities, 1930), who once danced in a costume of leaves which a trained fawn consumed as she wiggled, later claimed she invented the fan dance, sued Sally Rand for $375,000 for stealing the idea; after a jump from a hotel window when she failed to get a strip-joint job; in Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 8, 1956 | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...Roman Catholic Veep helping the Dems win in '56 could be justified only if Father Rigney were a candidate. With Red Chinese ranging in Burma, hardy Tibetans battling Mao's tanks with muskets, and a powder-keg "peace" in Korea, I doubt if even a Catholic nudist with the stature of Diana Dors or the popularity of Elvis Presley could do much effective "muffling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 20, 1956 | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...Bare Facts. Near Welland, Ont., the Niagara Gymnosophical Society, which operates a 25-acre nudist colony, announced that it would open its doors to the public for one day to demonstrate "that all nations can live together in peace. The day's activities will be a revelation for skeptics of the nudist idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 2, 1956 | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...Westbrook Pegler, former War Correspondent Quentin Reynolds last week got ready to collect. The U.S. Supreme Court ended the long legal battle by refusing to review a New York federal jury's $175,001 award to Reynolds (TIME, July 5, 1954 et seq.), after Pegler branded him a nudist and coward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Payoff | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

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