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...Mel Hocker, one of the alltime great American nudists, is still out there in the nude. But he is not smiling and carefree, the way you would imagine a nudist to be. At 60, Mel sits alone in his little office, a mass of naked wrinkles, glum, dispirited, forlorn. Forlorn because just outside Mel's screen door, his own twelve-acre nudist club-the Oakdale Guest Ranch-is going silently to seed in the dry heat of the San Bernardino Mountains. In fact, the club's membership in two years has plummeted from 300 to 60 couples...
...sexual revolution that's killing us," moans Mel, who has been nude nonstop now for 18 years. "The pornographic movies, the topless-bottomless bars, the dirty magazines-they're making nudism in America passé." To show what he means, Mel slips into shower clogs and takes us on a tour of his camp, mercifully letting us keep our pants on. The layout of the place hints of its past grandeur: 16 rustic cabins idling on a hillside, and down on the flat, dozens of vacant trailer slips where you can almost envision happy, laughing naked people swarming...
...Mel Hocker sits alone in his little office, a mass of naked wrinkles, glum, dispirited, forlorn, brooding about the passing of the golden age of nudism and wearily watching Sparky Blaine trying to create a last varoom...
...veteran baseball announcer; of a heart attack; in Mill Valley, Calif. Though he held a law degree, Hodges opted for a $25-a-week job broadcasting Cincinnati Red games in 1932. His enthusiastic delivery carried him to prosperity and New York, where he teamed with the Yankees' Mel Allen. In 1949 Hodges began his 22-year stint as "Voice of the Giants." His "Bye, Bye Baby" blessing for each Giant home run became his trademark and endured, as he did, when the Giants moved to San Francisco...
...stature and background, the options are limited once he does leave the Pentagon; there are few lesser positions he would willingly accept. There is speculation around Washington that he has his eye on the Republican presidential nomi nation in 1976. "I couldn't believe you were talking about Mel if you didn't talk in terms of his presidential plans," says one G.O.P. insider...