Word: nudists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Letter from Home. In the Grotto, where the Nudist Colony had sported during the Exposition, men sat around working with plexiglass and leather, boisterously joking. A Catholic chapel has been built in the basement of the old anthropological museum. There a boy in Navy uniform knelt at a golden altar, his new artificial leg stuck out behind him at an awkward angle. In a smoke-filled billiard room in the old California Tower Building a marine with a black patch over one eye cocked his head back so he could use his good left eye for sighting...
...College Humor and the old Life. After college he studied at Manhattan's famed Art Students League under Thomas Hart Benton. Says Darrow of this training: "He taught me how to roll Bull Durham cigarets." Darrow's first New Yorker appearance was a study of two girl nudists admiring a male fellow nudist: "Last night I saw him in a blue serge suit. Zowie...
...activity is the deluxe Shepheard's Hotel, where males in civvies look as out of place as nuns in a nudist colony. During the day the broad mosaic-floored terrace is empty while the officers are at work. The brown wicker chairs begin to fill around 6:30 p.m., and by 7:30, the hour the bar opens, every seat is occupied. Most people drink rye highballs, Scotch & sodas, or gin & tonics. Nearly everyone wears a different kind of uniform. Sprinkled here & there among the crowd are American and British correspondents seeking crumbs of information, and satisfying their thirst...
...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...
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...