Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through the Fan. Now when he wanted to take her home he had to catch her in the grotto with a butterfly net. She did not seem to resent this treatment. She flew all around his house while his mother stayed locked in her own room. One night the White Lady flew through the blades of a humming electric fan. She performed the trick over & over, to demonstrate her control, but when Dubkin ran the fan at full speed (1,200 r.p.m.), she could sense that the blades were moving too fast and would not try to fly through them...
...thousands hung over their TVs and radios, rescuers worked on. At the 21st floor ledge, men spread a net, like fishermen in a sea of air. Jones's father and sister, and a priest, the Rev. Paul Huber, joined the rescuers on the 47th floor...
...21st floor, the firemen folded their net. Down in the street, the crowds drifted away. But throughout Ohio, some 350,000 people kept their radio and TV sets tuned in. It was 10 a.m. and about time for the morning soap operas to begin...
...American Airlines. In 1941, Colonial hired him as its top maintenance man. As president, he succeeds Alfons Landa, who took the job on a fill-in basis when Sigmund Janas resigned under fire from the CAB (TIME, July 2). Last week Landa reported that Colonial had a 1951 net profit of about $213,000 v. a $310,000 loss...
...began her new job by dishing out some of the casual poison that has got her barred from the sets of such Hollywood stars as Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart. Samples: "Errol [Flynn] says he doesn't worry about money just as long as he can reconcile his net income with his gross habits . . . Lana Turner is saying that Bob Topping owes her $82,000. Moral: Never marry a trust fund...