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...Totem Pole last week turned columnist. H(arry) Allen Wolfgang Smith, 33, who went to work at 16 on the Huntington (Ind.) Press, made lis name working for U.P. and the New York World-Telegram with such gems as a story of a nudist camp (written stark naked on the scene), weather reports ("WEATHER NOTE: Bad for grandmothers"), an interview with Simone Simon. (Without a word he tickled her vigorously. When she protested but did not squeal, he said he was only testing a Hollywood report that she was ticklish.) His book, Low Man on a Totem Pole, based chiefly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Totem Column | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Aerial Survey. In Hertfordshire, England, the leader of an outdoor nudist colony said all the followers had got used to the R.A.F.'s low-altitude reconnaissance flights, hoped the R.A.F. would get used to the followers sometime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 26, 1941 | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...physiotherapy means anything to the layman, it is apt to mean quackery and cultism-high colonic irrigations, spine juggling, nudist colonies. Actually, physiotherapy is an ancient and honorable art which uses such natural methods as heat, massage and exercise to invigorate the body, relieve pain. Though most of its practitioners are laymen, physiotherapy is a special pet of the American Medical Association. Last week, for the umpteenth time, the Journal of the A. M. A. begged doctors to wrest this lucrative and valuable specialty from the hands of the quacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Physiotherapy | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...over a projected fountain in the plaza in front of Union Station. The fountain, whose lyric, lolloping naiads and tritons, by famed Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles, represent the meeting of the Mississippi and the Missouri, is known officially as the Meeting of the Waters, locally as Wedding in a Nudist Colony. Last week a crowd of 2,000 saw the fountain unveiled at last. Speakers were Mayor Bernard Dickmann, Mrs. Aloe (widow of the late Alderman Louis P. Aloe), Sculptor Milles himself. When the white, sheetlike veils were removed and the water shot 90 ft. into the air, wetting Sculptor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nudist Fountain | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

...little man in France, Cartoonist Fabreès, 45, was onetime art editor of Le Petit Journal in Paris. He has globetrotted enough to feel that humor is everywhere much the same. The kind he likes is good-natured. Caption of his Scandal in a Nudist Colony: "They have put potatoes in jackets on our table! What fools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: French Cartoonist in the U. S. | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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