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Milles' fancy is not every man's taste. Though traditional, he is not traditional enough to keep some from ridiculing his exaggeratedly lean figures. One St. Louis art commission member thought Milles' The Meeting of the Waters (above) looked like "a wedding in a nudist colony." Modernists have found Milles wanting in imagination to move beyond the aura of Rodin, and lacking in Rodin's great power. For his part Milles sees little to praise in modern sculpture. "Their work is too stiff," he says. "They take a spiral and make a hole...
...Aline Mosby, who once took off all her own clothes to report a nudist convention, wrote that Marilyn had once given her the recipe for "happiness." It was to "serve Joe dinner in his chair while he watched TV," and let him wear the-pants in the family. Marilyn, according to Aline, also bought a "king-size, eight-foot bed," because she did not approve of separate bedrooms, and "often in bed you think of something you want to say, and you're not going to chase down the hall to another room...
...Braxton Bragg Sawyer stepped into an Oklahoma City bookstore one day and came out with a crusade. Inside he had found a group of teen-agers giggling over nudist magazines. Baptist Sawyer was alarmed to see Satan in this unexpected quarter. "Nudists!" he said. "I had preached for 20 years without ever using the word nudist...
...Sawyer hurried home to Fort Smith, Ark. (pop. 47,942) and went to work, getting bills drawn up to outlaw this "national menace," thundering against it over his radio program. To get his point across, he played a tape-recorded "confession of a 13-year-old nudist girl." Nudist Norval Packwood, executive director of the American Sunbathing Association (with more than 15,000 members), wrote to Evangelist Sawyer and invited him to the A.S.A. national convention at Battle Creek, Mich, "to learn the real truth about nudism." Last week, as the nudists shucked their clothes at Battle Creek...
Without shedding even his coat, 42-year-old Preacher Sawyer grabbed his movie camera and made for the camp gateway. One nudist tossed a neat block and Sawyer's burly bulk (5 ft.11 in., 225 Ibs.) hit the dust (see cut). Nudists rallied to revive him with a first-aid kit. a camp chair and a sandwich. A few minutes later, he tried again, fell even harder. Next day Preacher Sawyer came back, once again found the gate guarded. Said he earnestly: "I intend to intensify my campaign ... I give them credit for being as sincere...