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...half-million readers of Tokyo's Sun Photo Times were shocked. Stark on Page One was a photo of a man & woman in an Indiana nudist camp...
Tokyo's five-month-old tabloid had a ready explanation for its shocker. Editor Yoshio Kaneko was just doing his best to teach his readers Western democratic habits. U.S. nudist camps are noted for purity of thought, said Sun Photo Times; "wouldn't it be a good idea if the members of Japan's Diet [which includes 39 women] deliberated . . . while naked...
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...