Word: canallers
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...Trees, the aging colonel and his young mistress' are meticulously cared for by assorted Venetian factotums, all of whom are really friends. When the colonel slips an extra bill to a young second waiter, the tip is reproachfully returned-an event about as plausible as the Grand Canal turning to Valpolicella. John O'Hara, a Hemingway disciple but less sentimental, is not so much concerned with friendship between servant and master as with correctness; his elderly club members know that it is as gauche to overtip as to undertip, and they seem to get away with shiny half...
...combines as collateral against each new acquisition. Gradually his original $20,000 investment pyramided into Tecon Corp., a general construction company that now has assets of $10 million. With it Clint Jr. even took on the ambitious job of removing a hill that threatened to fall into the Panama Canal, despite skepticism by other big companies whether it could be done at a profit. He made a handsome profit...
...fashionable hair stylist in France, and possibly in the whole world, first drew international attention at the 1955 wedding of Princess Ira von Fürstenberg and Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe-Langenburg in Venice. Leaning over to give the princess' hairdo a final fluff, he fell into the Grand Canal. But that header was nothing to the splash created by Alexandre of Paris last week when Jackie Kennedy arrived in France. With his careful fingers and soaring imagination, Alexandre transformed the girlish casualness of Jackie's usual hairdo into a piece of elaborate and queenly sculpture...
Both Cornell, the pre-race favorite, and Rutgers were able to handle the rough choppy water on the twisting mile-long canal better than the Crimson eight which caught frequent crabs and never hung together. The Big Red finished half a length in front of the Crimson, which lost to Rutgers by about two seats...
PALINDROMES: A man, a plan, a canal, Panama; Piel's lager on red rum did murder no regal sleep...