Word: lifeguard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sorts & Conditions. Austin Pardue has had plenty of smaller jobs. In Chicago, where he was born 52 years ago, "we never had any money, and I always had to work"-as a drugstore clerk, a lifeguard, a package wrapper. He never got to finish high school. Most of his fun came through St. Peter's Church, where he sang in the choir. St. Peter's had a well-run athletic program, a swimming pool, a summer camp. "It meant everything in my whole life as a kid," says Pardue. "I began to feel that the church had done...
...Albion College, Michigan. His college tailor shop and cleaning concession did so well that "it took me quite a while to get used to the drop in income after I graduated." But it was not until 1939, after he had been everything from a lifeguard to a radio salesman on the West Coast, that he went into business for himself again, selling fluorescent lights in Los Angeles...
Today, Koerner looks like a small-scale lifeguard (he is 5 ft. 4 in., weighs 147 Ibs.). Trim, deeply tanned, with long, wavy blue-black hair and hot brown eyes, he wears a sweatshirt and corduroy slacks at home, does his own cooking. He is a solitary sort, finds relaxation in walking and riding the subway and seldom goes to parties, but when he is with people he is voluble and friendly. Three-fourths of his waking hours are devoted to work...
...happy-go-lucky Sergeant John Frankey and his quiet little buddy Corporal Paul Abel were supply noncoms in C Company of the 796th M.P. Battalion. Frankey, 29, came from Brockton, Mass., had been a lifeguard, and had gone to the University of Wisconsin for two years. Abel was 26, from Bolivar, Mo. A onetime farmhand, he had only been through grammar school, but he knew how to do things in the city: he had once helped Frankey steal a $1,300 radio transmitter from an M-8 U.S. armored car. When they first tried to sell their loot, black-marketeers...