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Semi-Nude Bathers Lose Race to LawA Milwaukee artist's model aqd a West high school graduate ran afoul of the police interpretation of the bathing suit ordinance in the first 1932 skirmish of the annual argument.Elmer Borsuk, 2 South Mills street, who was acquiring a lusty coat of tan on the upper part of his anatomy Friday afternoon at the Sigma Chi pier, 630 North I,ake street, landed before Chief William H. McCormick after a half block chase through the cooling waters of Lake Mendota.Police received complaints Friday afternoon of “young men without any shirts swimming and sunning themselves at the Sigma Chi pier.” When Officers H. J. Morris and Earl Bonner arrived Borsuk grabbed his shirt and dove in the water.Lifeguard Milt Gantenbein. university football star, took up the water chase and caught his man j at the Beta pier.Borsuk was released after a lecture by the chief.Ben Weinstein. Milwaukee artist’s model, was basking in the sun at the university boat house this morning when other bathers objected to viewing his artistic torso, covered only with a pair of trunks. He was taken to Chief McCormick for a lecture by Detective Romain York and Officer Stanley Main.
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Wisconsin State Palladium
Madison, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Jul 16, 1932
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