Article: Event designer sells business to tent, party rental company.

Byline: Jane Roberts

May 16--Sally Shy is one of the city's most unabashed party girls. She's been whipping up big-time parties since Peter Duchin and 1,800 others dropped in for her coming-out party a couple decades back on Lookout Mountain.

Sally Shy Event Design is now in the same tent with Mahaffey Tent & Party Rentals. Perhaps nothing highlights the contrast better than the piles of colorful tablecloths and napkins stacked with tent sidings and steel in Mahaffey's warehouse. It looks like a covey of tropical birds nesting in an army installation.

"They don't know a thing about tablecloths, linens and all the fluff and puff," Shy says. "And ...

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