ASA president Reed Suplee has appeared on Herb
Shriner's Two for the Money on two occasions.
The first time, the program ran out of TV time so that Reed had to be called
back the second week. His presidency of the ASA was not mentioned but he got in
some nice “plugs” for Sunny Rest and for Suntan
magazine. He and his partner won $125 and were unable to name the last
fourteen states to join the union, for the big money. We bet Reed knows the
answers now.
On the occasion of the recent unseasonal
snowfall in south Jersey, the United Press put the following item on the wires:
“Sunbathers at Southern New Jersey's two nudist camps wore earmuffs,
greatcoats, and galoshes today in deference to 8 inches of snow.”
In the Florida Anthropologist, Anthropology
Professor Frederick R. Wulsin describes experiments on how clothes hamper the
body in keeping itself cool. They act as insulators, checking heat loss by
radiation. More important, they create near the skin a layer of hot, most
saturated air. Sweat cannot evaporate until it has soaked through the clothing,
and then its cooling effect is largely wasted. Dr. Wulsin ridicules the idea
that Europeans in tropical climates should wear helmets and heavy clothing to
keep from being felled by the tropical sun. The less clothing they wear, he
says, the better off they are.
Dr. Wulsin considers the alleged inferiority
of hot country civilizations as largely as myth. In the old days, people in the
tropics wore little clothing, usually nothing above the waist. Now tropical
people of European culture, clinging to European customs, go clothed as if they
were dressing for a chilly British spring. The natural result is lassitude and
a lowered cultural level.
Next season’s swim suits, according to the
papers, will feature a transparent nylon panel over flesh colored silk. Can’t
just go nude you know. There’s nothing exciting in that. Nudists know it and
apparently, so do clothing manufacturers. Here’s a trip for the DuPont Co.,
makers of nylon and now several new miracle fabrics. Why not develop –another
new fabric for the bathing suit manufacturers, an invisible fabric. The new
fabric could be called “nothingon.”
“If we passed this ordinance (referring to one proposed which would have made it illegal to display and unclothed manikin in a store window), we might as well put screens around hydrants for modest dogs.” – Alderman Harry Newburg, of La Grosse Wisc., quoted in the Milwaukee (Wisc.) Journal.
“The decision to ban bathing suits for general use in Saugatuck is to prevent this town from being turned into a nudist camp.” –George C. Wright, mayor of Saugatuck, Mich., who threatened the arrest of anyone appearing in the streets with scanty attire, as reported in the Detroit Free Press.
While the rest of the world regarded nudism as a normal and accepted facet of American life, the post office, long an enemy of nudity in any form, went about “business” as usual. In Arizona an inspector, disguised as a salesman, called on an ASA member, and the member writes that attempts were made to get him to sign a false affidavit to the effect that bona fide nudist photographs found in his office were processed by another member, Christ Studios. In Hialeah Florida, an inspector succeeded in obtaining from an ASA member, nudist photos allegedly processed by the Chris Studios. Whether the photographs were confiscated, stolen, or given to the inspector, the member at this time declines to discuss. Another member who is also a postal employee, advises us that the department has no legal right to open first class mail, and that the addressee is in no way obligated to open his mail in the presence of inspectors.
“If we passed this ordinance (referring to one proposed which would have made it illegal to display and unclothed manikin in a store window), we might as well put screens around hydrants for modest dogs.” – Alderman Harry Newburg, of La Grosse Wisc., quoted in the Milwaukee (Wisc.) Journal.
“The decision to ban bathing suits for general use in Saugatuck is to prevent this town from being turned into a nudist camp.” –George C. Wright, mayor of Saugatuck, Mich., who threatened the arrest of anyone appearing in the streets with scanty attire, as reported in the Detroit Free Press.
While the rest of the world regarded nudism as a normal and accepted facet of American life, the post office, long an enemy of nudity in any form, went about “business” as usual. In Arizona an inspector, disguised as a salesman, called on an ASA member, and the member writes that attempts were made to get him to sign a false affidavit to the effect that bona fide nudist photographs found in his office were processed by another member, Christ Studios. In Hialeah Florida, an inspector succeeded in obtaining from an ASA member, nudist photos allegedly processed by the Chris Studios. Whether the photographs were confiscated, stolen, or given to the inspector, the member at this time declines to discuss. Another member who is also a postal employee, advises us that the department has no legal right to open first class mail, and that the addressee is in no way obligated to open his mail in the presence of inspectors.
(Source: The Nudist
Newsletter, Issue Number
52, May, 1956)
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