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...mind in the healthy body. This is not only a creed but a way of life. Sun, light and air are vital conditions to human wellbeing. We believe these elements are insufficiently used in present-day life, to the detriment of physical and moral health."-Pronunciamento of the International Nudist Conference...
Fervent converts to this "way of life" are Jim Goodman and Susie Wise. He has been a practicing nudist for four months, she for three. Nothing makes Jim, a California railway conductor, feel better than to go to a nudist colony for weekends, strip off his uniform and "romp around...
...subscribers of The Nudist, official organ of the International Nudist Conference, went last week not The Nudist but copies of a substitute called Sunshine. Subscribers were disappointed to observe that Sunshine contained no photographs of nudists disporting themselves in the gravel-pits, weed-patches or trout streams of their colonies. It contained only solemnly written text concerning U. S. nudists and their more dignified activities.* Sunshine was preceded by a letter explaining what had happened to The Nudist. A month ago its publishers-because they wished to confine their circulation to subscribers, eliminate entirely The Nudist's newsstand sales...
...editors of The Nudist are two serious, high-minded, sincere clergymen, Dr. Henry Strong Huntington (Presbyterian) and Dr. Ilsey Boone (Baptist). The pictures they publish in The Nudist are never pornographic. They appear because "they give the cause a wide appeal ..." and "The Nudist is a missionary...
...nakedness. Last week they were cited by the indignant elders of 223-year-old Ponds Reformed Church in Oakland, N. J., in a solemn resolution accepting the resignation of one of their fellows. Rev. Ilsley Boone, longtime elder and sometime supply preacher, has been a prominent and active Nudist for two and one-half years. A small, white-haired, 53-year-old father of seven, he organized Nudist colonies in New Jersey and New England, helped found The Nudist which he calls the "only bona fide magazine" of its sort. Nudist Boone's activities began annoying the Ponds Church...