Word: nettings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Renaissance-style Palazzo Labia, just off the Grand Canal. To avoid the clatter of dishwashing at his fancier banquets, Host Labia frequently ordered his soiled gold tableware chucked into the canal at the end of each course. (The ugly gossip was that he had laid a stout fish net on the canal bottom beforehand.) The Labias and their dinnerware have long since passed into oblivion, but last week the Labia palace was all lit up again for the biggest binge cosmopolite café society had seen in a doge...
Within a few minutes it was obvious that determination had taken Dick Savitt as far as it could. Again & again he was short of reaching Seixas' placements; he could not go to the net effectively; Seixas took the first set at love. Savitt rallied himself for a do-or-die effort and somehow managed to win the second set, 6-3, but after that his cork was pulled; Seixas ran the match...
...steady Shirley Fry then stood between Little Mo and the big crown. After a battle fought mostly from the baselines, Loser Fry surveyed the result (6-3, 1-6, 6-4), then ruefully said: "No one can duel with her at the baseline . . . Go up to the net against her? . . . Ridiculous...
...last shot forced an out, the new queen uttered an unqueenly "Yeeow!" Then she scampered to the net for a proper handshake, grabbed a towel near the umpire's chair and sobbed into it for joy over beating all the big girls at last...
...company over four small plants. At war's end, when the $8,000,000 Bohn Aluminum & Brass war plant at Torrance, Calif, became surplus, he snatched it up at a bargain, has since become a key supplier for the aircraft industry. Harvey claims his company now has a net worth of $9,000,000, employs 1,000 people, processes 2,000,000 Ibs. of aluminum a month...