There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it
Clark Gable was the first to have called me a mermaid.
Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.
Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.
I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air