Nice atricle from 1941

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I found a way to find entire copies of hard to find magazine articles. Here is an example of one from a 1941 edition of Colliers Magazine. I included a few lines to set the tone.

A Nice Clean Sport, Frank J. Taylor, Colliers, Nov 1, 1941; pages 13, 59 & 60
“A skin diver, as Mr. Rodecker explains, is a fellow who pulls on a pair of fancy swimming trunks, some rubber fins, a diving mask and canvas gloves, then fills his lungs with air and noses down into the ocean looking for two fisted trouble. Four years ago (1937), he says, the only genuine skin divers in the land were the 40-odd members of the Watermans Association, composed of beachcombers and life guards. Now there are 5,000 skin divers in southern California alone, and captain Hal Messenger chides in to add that adventurous swimmers are forming skin divers’ clubs on the gulf and Atlantic coasts and in land waters too

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