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...most members prefer their artistry straightforward. Last week Fluffles the Tassler and Countess Carolin von Sirowitz (the names change quickly) made members forget such recently faded princesses as Peaches Page and Melodic Bubbles. And all across London, clubmen were impatiently awaiting the promised arrival of Bonnie Bell the Ding-Dong Girl, whose entire wardrobe consists of three bells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBS & CLUBS: Bare Market | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

...DING DONG SCHOOL-"Here is a place where a child's mind is stretched, his imagination enchanted and his spirit made more generous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Question & Answers | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...Hills, where a movie star ought to live. By classical Hollywood standards, this pad is so far out that it might as well be in Oshkosh or Altoona or on a space platform, and the girl who lives there is even farther out-she is a real ring-a-ding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: The Ring -a- Ding Girl | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...such evidence of her kookiness, a Clansman will shrug his shoulders and call her "a ring-a-ding," using a Clan word that stands for anything puzzling, hard to define, but generally wonderful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOLLYWOOD: The Ring -a- Ding Girl | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

...commitments to Broadway shows, even insisted that Robards move in with him so that he could keep the convivial actor under surveillance. One TV crew member summed up the strain in a ditty fitted to a My Fair Lady tune: "I'm getting murdered in the morning/ Ding dong the Bell is going to chime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: It Didn't Move | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

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