Wyngate & Bevins Day

It's time for another series featuring those clever fellows who found a way around the obscenity laws in the mid-1960s, Wyngate & Bevins.  Their device was to falsely describe their photos as nudists, which had been declared legal in certain circumstances by a Federal appellate court.  By sifting through legal documents, I've come to the conclusion that the principals of W&B were Samuel and Albert Ratner.  Those legal documents show that the Ratners were fined $35,000 for sending unsolicited promotional material to men through the mail.  They appealed, and the fine was suspended pending the outcome of a similar case already making its way up the legal food chain which eventually cleared them.  We start todays set with (l-r) Don Davis, Bob Penn, Johnny Lamont and an unknown.