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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Singer Lisa Kirk has spent 15 years becoming so skilled a pro that it is impossible for audiences to be anti. Gowned in clinging, strapless, white organza studded with sequins, perched atop a suitcase carried by four male dancers, auburn-haired Singer Kirk was spending her evenings last week being carried about the floor, belting out I'm Sitting on Top of the World at the top of her iron lungs. It was corny, it was stagy, and few entertainers could have got away with it. But at the plush Persian Room of Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, Lisa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: In Her Fashion | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

Lisa is only 33, and can presumably go on being sultry, cute and stylish for decades to come. But if she should ever lose her nightclub following, her energetic, silver-haired mother may point to new possibilities; at 66, Mrs. Kirk is a successful model impersonating happy, middle-aged matrons of the Serutan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGHTCLUBS: In Her Fashion | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...Thin Man (NBC. 9:30-10 p.m.). Peter Lawford and Phyllis Kirk tangle in their debonair fashion with a character who claims to be the last of the West's badmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Jun. 15, 1959 | 6/15/1959 | See Source »

...Unhappily, Producer Walt Disney tells his shaggy-dog story so doggedly that he soon runs it into the pound. The story: a Renaissance ring that has the power to put a human being into the body of an animal falls into the hands of a teen-age boy (Tommy Kirk), who thereupon starts sprouting long white hair, soon finds himself living a dog's life. His father (Fred MacMurray) is of course horrified to hear him bark like a dog. The young pups who make up most of Producer Disney's audience will snap happily at this scented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 20, 1959 | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...problem of economic aid to underdeveloped countries was the subject of the informal discussion led by Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb, professors Edward S. Mason, George E. Kirk, and Barbara Ward, Lady Jackson. The panel of economists agreed that the obstacle of political influence and intrigue is one of the greatest impediments to effective economic development...

Author: By Jean J. Darling, | Title: 'Cliffe Celebrates 80th Birthday; Fund Drive Approaches $5 Million | 4/16/1959 | See Source »

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