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Squat Russell Tongay could hardly wait to make a swimmer out of his first-born son. As a high-school boy in St. Louis, barrel-chested Russ was a sprint swimmer himself, and earned letters in almost every other sport. But fame & fortune eluded him. He became a coach at municipal pools and summer camps, was anonymously enduring World War II as a Coast Guard pharmacist's mate at Miami when Russell Jr. was born...
...Bubba Tongay, 5, and his sister Kathy, 4, have been knocking off long-distance swimming records ever since they were old enough (ten months) to dog-paddle. Back home in Miami, the wide-shouldered, sun-scorched Tongay kids swim seven miles before breakfast every morning. Last year Bubba swam 22 miles down the Mississippi. The kids' father and trainer, ex-Coast Guardsman Russell Tongay, had an extraordinary plan: he wanted the children to swim the ig-mile English Channel and maybe win some of the $19,600 prize money offered by the London Daily Mail...
...story was spotted by Russell G. Tongay of Miami, father of swimming prodigies called the "Aquatots." He sent for a copy of the A.M.A. Journal article referred to in our story...
...five-year-old Mary Jane Vickery showed no signs of reviving. Tongay took a chance. He tried the push-pull, and she soon began to stir. After a night in Broward Hospital, Mary Jane went home, fully recovered...
...Tongay reported this first test case to the researchers who developed the push-pull method. Said Dr. Ivy: "A doctor's work, in practice or research, is intended to save lives. This makes me feel good . . ." TIME'S job is to tell the news; this makes us feel good...