Word: lifeguarding
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...Lincolnwood. a Chicago suburb, with Arline and the three children (two girls, a boy). He has three motorboats. a summer home in the country and a winter home in Florida, and a 30-ft. by 60-ft. swimming pool that he shares with youngsters once a week, hiring a lifeguard to watch over them. He likes to watch himself on one of his six TV sets, greets his twice-weekly taped appearance with "There's the monster." After a scant breakfast. Moran drives to his office in his four-door hardtop Ford Galaxie. riffles through the mail...
...Herridge went to Northwestern, once held a poetry fellowship at the University of California. Leaving academe astride the flaring rationalization that "one should live at the center of experience of his time," he hit the road. He loafed, worked on road gangs, on farms, on beaches as a lifeguard. He published stories in Scribner's Magazine and the American Mercury. Following his Steinbeck period came his Hemingway period. Herridge enlisted in the Army Air Corps, flew missions over southern Europe. After the war, he padded around Greenwich Village, wandered into television ten years ago to beachcomb for money...
Water Wings, Anyone? In Pittsburgh, the county park commission hired a lifeguard named Ronald Drown...
...heart of the Aqua-Lung: a valve the size of an alarm clock, which lets highly compressed air escape from a tank until it balances the water pressure, then feeds it to the diver through a mouthpiece. One day in 1943 Cousteau posted Skindiver Frederic Dumas as a lifeguard, waddled out into the Mediterranean under the 50-Ib. Aqua-Lung, and realized his dream. He was free: "I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a shrill, distorted laugh. Nothing I did altered the automatic rhythm...
...drifted in his lifeguard's rowboat, a playful swimmer reached up and began rocking the boat. Quesada's response was strikingly similar to his techniques even today: he raised an oar and whacked the swimmer on the hands. The victim was an Air Service pilot. The two made friends quickly, and soon thereafter the pilot took Quesada up for an airplane ride. That did it: the day after his first ride, Pete Quesada joined the Air Service, went off to training as a flying cadet. He became a first-class pilot...