Word: lisa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grand mural depicting the Battle of Anghiari was completely lost because an experimental lacquer, one of Leonardo's latest notions, dissolved. The Last Supper early began to fade, partly because Leonardo chose to use an experimental tempera. Of all his paintings, only two or three, including the Mona Lisa, survive relatively unimpaired...
Toast of the Town (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS) continues its salute to Oscar Hammerstein, starring Gertrude Lawrence, Lisa Kirk, Richard Rodgers, Dolores Gray...
...Rembrandt's last, dirt-poor years, it glowed with a human warmth and depth that his earlier, slicker works lacked. The sitter's pensive, bloodshot eyes pierced the murk in which Rembrandt had muffled him; his melancholy, tight little smile reminded some visitors of the Mono, Lisa. Like her, the Young Man seemed to be silently inviting the spectator to enter the timeless, painted world in which he stood...
Customers soon found that LISA stood for "Life Insurance Savings Account," the hustling $5.7 billion Bank of America's newest pitch. Under the LISA plan, any customer between the age .of three months and 46 years, who agrees to save from $200 to $1,000 by making regular monthly deposits, gets a free life-insurance policy without a physical examination. If the depositor dies before his savings program is completed, his beneficiary gets the full amount that he intended to save...
...LISA is the creation of polished, personable Executive Vice President Evan A. Mattison, who has rung up many a banking "first" for the Bank of America. He set up its installment financing system, also lured in many a small businessman by lending him working capital on accounts receivable. He thinks that LISA will not only bring in new customers, but will persuade present depositors to save on a more regular basis. Said he last week: "Insurance makes them squeeze their piggy banks every month." At week's end, some 200 new customers had made a date with LISA. Eventually...