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Word: lisa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walls of seven Bank of America branches last week blossomed with pictures of a pretty girl, captioned "LISA, who is she?" Employees also sported picture buttons of dark-haired, smiling LISA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Insured Dates | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS-TV) Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, with Lisa Kirk and Charlton Heston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jun. 5, 1950 | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

That was 15 years ago. In the summer of 1948, the late Count Folke Bernadotte asked Jussi to sing at a P.ed Cross benefit opera performance in Stockholm. He also asked Anna-Lisa if she wouldn't like to sing again. Anna-Lisa thought it over: their three children, Anders, 12, Lars-Olof, 10, and Ann-Charlotte, 5, were all out of infancy; she decided to try to pick up her promise of a career. Jussi and Anna-Lisa sang La Boheme together at the benefit-so successfully that Stockholm's Royal

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Career No. 2 | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Last week a Carnegie Hall audience heard Anna-Lisa and Jussi sing together for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Career No. 2 | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

When Anna-Lisa, still slim and pretty at 38, sang her first aria, from Puccini's Gianni Schicci, her bright-colored soprano was tight and quivering with nerves. It loosened up in arias from Gounod's Romeo and Juliet and Charpentier's Louise. By the time she had sung duets from La Boheme and Romeo with Jussi, she had proved she had something more than a talented amateur's equipment, if something less, after too many years away from public singing, than a professional way of using it. She would get a chance to correct that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Career No. 2 | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

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