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...Sauna & Fury...
...Sept. 22 issue of your magazine comments on a recent opinion written by me in a majority decision of the Michigan Supreme Court in a case involving nudists. Accompanying your comments was a seminude photograph of me taken while bathing in a Finnish sauna. This photograph was but one of several hundred of a wide variety of pictures taken over a three-day period early last spring by a photographer for LIFE magazine, in connection with a photo-illustrated review depicting typical scenes in my native Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the setting of my then recently published novel Anatomy...
Michigan Supreme Court Justice John D. Voellcer, who as Robert Traver wrote the fictional bestselling Anatomy of a Murder, likes an occasional sauna bath with his Finnish neighbors, deplores meddlers who interfere with the harmless customs of free citizens. Last week, writing the opinion for a decision exonerating four nudists, Justice Voelker-who is privately "revolted" by nudism-went after some offensive cops. Four carloads of flatfeet had raided the nudists' camp, "descending upon these unsuspecting souls like storm troopers, herding them before clicking cameras like plucked chickens." It was "indecent-indeed the one big indecency we can find...
...sauna, or steam bath-house, was built last year next to the Ski Club's cabin in Pinkham Notch, N. H. It was made possible by a gift from Alexander H. Bright '19, and was completed with funds from the Club's treasury. Labor was supplied by members of the Ski Club when the skiing was poor...
...sauna, rocks are heated on a special Finnish stove, and water is poured over them at intervals, causing an instantaneous release of "dry" heat, according to club president Peter A. A. Berle, '58. Purists beat one another with birch twigs, and finish by racing from the 180* sauna into a snowbank. Berle called the sauna "very relaxing...