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...Hocker, one of the alltime great American nudists, is still out there in the nude. But he is not smiling and carefree, the way you would imagine a nudist to be. At 60, Mel sits alone in his little office, a mass of naked wrinkles, glum, dispirited, forlorn. Forlorn because just outside Mel's screen door, his own twelve-acre nudist club-the Oakdale Guest Ranch-is going silently to seed in the dry heat of the San Bernardino Mountains. In fact, the club's membership in two years has plummeted from 300 to 60 couples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Decline of Nudism | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...patrons, mostly older males, sit drinking beer, droning apathetically and ignoring the woman. A sign on the wall says NUDI BURGERS. MORE MEAT LESS DRESSING. Hocker sits down, sips a Coke and brightens somewhat. "I pioneered in nudism, you know" he shouts over the music. "We were the first nudist place to serve beer, and we were first with nude dancing. This place has attracted your professional people, right down to the honorable janitor who pushes the broom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Decline of Nudism | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...high marks and unsullied reputation in the community, Bruns appeared to be a cinch to don the blue uniform. Then Bruns disclosed that in private life he had little use for clothes, let alone uniforms. He and his family were enthusiastic members of Pine Tree Associates­a local nudist club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Bare Decision | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

Baltimore Police Commissioner Donald Pomerleau swiftly rejected Bruns' application. He contended that the presence of a nudist on his force would affect department morale, to say nothing of causing Bruns to face "intolerable" harassment by his fellow officers. Besides, said Pomerleau, Bruns might be torn between duty and conscience when making vice arrests­say, for indecent exposure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Bare Decision | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...labors, he is no farther from torpor than when he started. The Stockton park even cuts down the shade trees under which laborers sleep in the evening heat. With irony too strong to be humorous, Tully comes closest to nature while watching a nudist colony skin-flick in a half-filled burlesque hall; by story's end, he has drifted into a wine-colored world, bearing constant remembrance of single moments of past happiness...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Books Boxed In | 11/18/1970 | See Source »

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