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FLORIDA HAS HIS HEART
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The Moores' house, "a modest, sixroom affair," is the scene of many happy occasions and the only place Tom has everwantedtocall "home."
"You can't exaggerate," Tom says. "Our home is a modest, six-room affair, simply furnished."
Willie Lou is Tom's wife and she — as well as her name — hails from Georgia. She prefers to be called Willie or Lou. Tom usually calls her W.L. She measures five-feettwo from her perfectly lacquered toe nails to her platinum blonde hair. Her. number-one job is Tom Moore and the care of same.
"And in spite of it," says Tom, "she's always smiling."
W.L. loves to sew, and turns out some of her own clothes and tablecloths and slipcovers. Another interest is making costume jewelry out of sea shells.
She has furnished the house graciously and it is a Florida home from its white concrete blocks to its predominately rattan interior. The Moores do most of their living in the "Florida room."
"It's a combination rumpus -parlor -porch -everything room," says Tom. "That's where we do most of our living night and day. We drink our orange juice there in the morning and play gin rummy there at night."
Tom has a lot of trophies in the "Florida room." Most of the athletic trophies are for various ski events . . . for, as they say, "ducks take to water like Tom Moore took to water skiing."
"I wanted to specialize in jumping," Tom recalls, "but no one would teach me. Said I was too old."
So Tom taught himself and it was rugged going, for jumping is one of the most difficult and exacting phases of water skiing. The standard water-ski jump is a wooden ramp twenty-four feet long and eight feet wide, anchored at an angle in the water so that the take-off point is about six feet from the (Continued on page 98)
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