Art: Nudist Fountain

St. Louis tongues have clacked for more than three years over a projected fountain in the plaza in front of Union Station. The fountain, whose lyric, lolloping naiads and tritons, by famed Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles, represent the meeting of the Mississippi and the Missouri, is known officially as the Meeting of the Waters, locally as Wedding in a Nudist Colony. Last week a crowd of 2,000 saw the fountain unveiled at last. Speakers were Mayor Bernard Dickmann, Mrs. Aloe (widow of the late Alderman Louis P. Aloe), Sculptor Milles himself. When the white, sheetlike veils were removed and the water...

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