Word: lisa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...singing teacher at Stockholm's Royal Opera School had little fault to find with the little tenor's singing; what annoyed her was the tenor's persistent wooing of her pet pupil, pretty, blonde Soprano Anna-Lisa Berg. Marriage, she told them sternly, would be the end of Anna-Lisa's promising operatic career. She was right. Young, golden-voiced Tenor Jussi Bjoerling and Anna-Lisa were married. And while Jussi sang his way to the Metropolitan and world fame, Anna-Lisa set-to work to raise their family, instead of her voice...
...photograph of a certain model. She should correspond, the agency explained, to a phrase in TIME which said: "She just makes you feel thirty." After some research the photographer found that the phrase referred to Louise Hyde, who was mentioned in TIME'S cover story on Model Lisa Fonssagrives (Sept. 19, 1949). However, TIME had quoted Miss Hyde's television sponsor, a soft drink manufacturer, as having characterized her as "the girl who makes you feel thirsty...