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Cheesecake. Among the worst offenders, said the committee, are nudist magazines supposedly "published in the interest of sunshine and health," and straight cheesecake magazines. Sample cheesecake titles: Candid Whirl, Glamorous Models, Wink, Whisper, Keyhole, Titter, Foo, Nifty, Pepper, Zip, Wham, Paris Life...
Edouard Fankhauser, president of the Swiss Nudist Club, regards the Helsinki Olympics as a "travesty." Said he last week: "The ancient athletes performed in the nude . . . It would be so much better if the youth of the world . . . remained faithful to the old ideals." So saying, Nudist Fankhauser stepped back inside the barb-wired camp on the shore of Switzerland's Lake of Neuchatel, where some 50 naked men & women from six European countries were competing in "the real Olympiad." U.S. nudists (TIME, Aug. 25) were invited, but decided not to take off for Europe...
These limits were defined when Bethal College in McKenzie, Tennessee, dismissed zoology professor John E. Bauman for belonging to a nudist group, and the University of Alabama accepted the resignation of assistant dean Marion Coley whose financial interest in a beer distributing firm was deemed "detrimental to the University...
...Nudists at Bethel Bethel, the little Presbyterian college (enrollment 450) in McKenzie, Tenn., found out that it was harboring a nudist. It came to the notice of the college authorities that Dr. John E. Bauman, 59, professor of zoology, had been a nudist for ten years. Bethel asked him to leave...
Zoologist Bauman did not think much of the anti-nudist argument the college used against him. "They brought up that old question about why did God make a fig leaf for Eve if God wanted man to be in the nude. And that is not even historically true."* The authorities were of no mind to debate the Scriptures. Nudism, said Bethel President Roy N. Baker last week, "does not fit in with our church program. We don't fool with that kind of business...