Word: poole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Their ribs showed. Russ, who fed them protein baby food long after they were babies, said: "I keep them lean because they swim better." Eventually, both learned amazing stunts. Bubba would jump off a 33-ft. tower with his hands and feet tied and swim two lengths of the pool under water. Kathy swam seven miles every morning when training, and dived 20 feet blindfolded...
Back to the Pool. One day last week, the roof fell in on Russ again. Kathy died. Russ had apparently thought she was well able to swim a few hours earlier...
Kathy, he said, began the day at Miami's Macfadden-Deauville Pool trying to do a difficult dive-a back one-and-a-half layout-off a 33-ft. board. She failed, hit "perfectly flat on her belly" and complained that her back hurt. Then he took her to the Treasure Isle Pool, where the children did conditioning work five days a week. Lifeguard Dick Kohler reported that she had "bruises all over her" and "wasn't feeling well." Russ fed her a can of baby soup. She vomited. Then Russ told her to go into the water...
...academic life is not as honest as I'd hoped it would be." Elliott and Cathy Lewis earn a combined gross income of $90,000 a year. By Hollywood standards, they live modestly in Beverly Hills (they are only now thinking of putting in a swimming pool). Elliott scarcely gives TV a passing glance ("The biggest TV development was enlarging the screen-that made it easier for people to see how bad the shows are"). He expects to continue pouring his considerable energies into radio: "What I want most is to have five shows a week on which...
...Negro is a good customer. He wants to feel that he can buy the best. Swift & Co. does not advertise its ordinary fowl in Negro publications, but the more expensive Swift's Premium ("The dream chicken that came true"). Several Negro families often pool their savings to buy an expensive car and drive it on alternate days. On Harlem's Lenox Avenue, Cadillacs are so commonplace that nobody turns to look at them any more (a situation which one resourceful driver met by having his Cadillac...