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...Diego last week Exposition-goers paid 25? to enter Zoro Gardens "nudist colony." Scores of gawpers saved the admission price by pressing their eyes to knotholes in the fence...
...Vernon, N. Y., some nudists calling themselves The Nudist Theatre Guild recruited a few professional actors and put on a half-clothed version of the old stock company chestnut, retitled The Girl from Childs in 1950. Beforehand the director had announced: "Serious [i. e., stark naked] presentation is not possible at present. We have to cope with the law. The cast will wear as little as possible." The pressagent said: "As was the case when Columbus spoke of a new route to India, tremendous obstacles have been placed in the way of the new enterprise. . . . protests. . . . boycott. . . . We have refused...
Nearly the entire civic administration of Mt. Vernon, representatives of every church and the Bible Society, showed up for the preview performance. After watching the cast bridle through its paces, the women in baggy underwear and aprons, the men in shorts and collars, the audience voted the nudist lark "depressingly modest...
Quick to retort to the Holy Father was Rev. Ilsley Boone, executive secretary of the International Nudist Conference. "A careful re-reading," said he in Manhattan, "suggests that the Pontiff was not attacking American nudism, since no authenticated case of wantonness or immorality has been cited against the organized movement in this country. . . . He refers to a 'cult' indulging in wantonness, and the American movement, no matter what else it may be, is certainly not a 'cult'. . . . Its leadership here includes members of the Protestant clergy and Catholic laymen...
...private secretaries, all male, to answer his intimate correspondence. In addition to 5,000 broadcasts, Taylor has had time to write 120 pamphlets on such miscellaneous subjects as "Facts About Fruits" (A-19), "Why Be Unique? (B-11), "Insomnia" (C-8), "Why Take Your Own Life?" (C-10), "The Nudist Fad" (E-8), "Feminine Shapeliness" (F-14), "War of the Sexes" (D-5), "Square Pegs in Round Holes" (C-17), "Promiscuous Kissing" (B-10), "The In-Law Problem" (A-13), "Are You Afraid of Insanity?" (B-10). He also has a wife and a daughter, lives on Manhattan...