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Tables of Contents for Mermaids on Parade
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xi
Preface
xiii
About the Author
xv
Introduction
xvii
Annette Kellerman 1886--1975
1
20
Liberated Women Should Celebrate Her Birthday
And After Annette Came Ethelda Bleibtrey
21
8
Our First Olympic Superstar and Bobbed Hair Mermaid
Aileen Riggin---Minnow to Mermaid Non Stop
29
22
Helen Wainwright
51
8
(The Mermaid Goldfish Who Was Almost Better Than Almost Anybody In Almost Everything)
Mermaid Helen Meany, The Diving Diva
59
8
Or How Johnny Weissmuller almost Married Gary Cooper's Mother-in-Law
Mermaid Alice Lord Landon Caught Her Gold Wedding Ring on the Olympic Merry Go Round
67
4
Mermaid Betty Becker and Pinky
71
6
Mermaid Gertrude Ederle Swims the Channel
77
24
No Swimming Event Ever Had Greater Social Significance
Mermaid Sybil Bauer had a Dorsal Fin
101
6
Martha Norelius---
107
6
The ``I Don't Care'' Mermaid
Helene Madison
113
4
Like a Salmon, This Mermaid Suddenly Appeared, Tore Up Puget Sound and Then She was Gone
Mermaid Dorothy Poynton
117
8
Short And Sweet
Seeing Nellie Holm---
125
16
Mermaid Eleanor Holm usually went with the Flow But Was Never Afraid to Buck The Tide
Mermaid Katherine Rawls
141
8
The Country Girl who was the Three Way Hero of South Florida
Jane Fauntz and Her Suit With No Back
149
18
Horsin' Around With Mermaid Norma Dean Maxwell-The Steel Pier Diving Queen
167
10
Mermaid Gloria Callen
177
8
The Swimmer of `42. She took a Kayak to Nyack but She Swam Home
$1,000,000 Mermaid Esther Williams
185
10
Is Still Climbing Pool Ladders to Success
Brenda Helser
195
4
The Mermaid who became a Countess
Mermaid Ann Curtis
199
6
Have Suitcase will Travel (Faster and Longer than any other Mermaid)
How The Board Bounced For America's First Oriental Diving Mermaid Vicki Draves
205
10
Diving Mermaid Zoe Ann Olsen
215
4
Pat Mccormick
219
4
Mermaid Queen of the Flying Fish
These Two Golden Age Million Dollar Mermaids are Still Going like a Duracell Battery
223
8
Patricia Robinson Fulton
231
8
Gertrude Artelt
239
4
It's Murder, He Wrote
``Hut, Sut Ralston''---Six Mermaids Who Dove and Swam Right over the Dam
243
2
Bye Bye Mermaids---Where Have All Their Water Shows Gone?
245
20
Acknowledgements
265