Word: lisa
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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...
...Died. Lisa Larsen, 34, world-roving LIFE photographer, 1958's "Magazine Photographer of the Year" for her report on Outer Mongolia, favorite of statesmen of all types (Alben Barkley called her Mona Lisa; Nikita Khrushchev once gave her a bouquet of pink, white and red peonies); of cancer; in Manhattan...
...North Sydney, athletic (5 ft. 8 in., 151 Ibs.) Sylvia thrashed to world butterfly records for 220 yds. and 200 meters in 2:40.3. At the national championships in Hobart, Tasmania, she chased Australia's lisa Konrads so closely in the 880-yd. free style that 14-year-old lisa broke her own world record, explained: 'Syl was on me tail." Last week, at her farewell appearance in Melbourne, versatile Sylvia tackled the individual medley event (requiring backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and free-style laps), set world records at 440 yds. and 400 meters with a 5:41.1 clocking...
...Madison Square Garden, open both the Garden and Chicago Stadium to any qualified promoter. Neither the Garden nor the Stadium may stage more than two championship fights a year. ¶ Thrashing purposefully against a stop watch in the Olympic pool at North Sydney, Australia's incredible whiz-kid, Lisa Konrads, 14, touched out in 19 min. 25.7 sec., shattering the old world record for 1,500 meters by an amazing 37.4 sec. Brother John Konrads, 16, got into the act, too, set a new world mark of 2 min. 2.2 sec. for the 200-meter freestyle, now holds every...
Voice of Firestone (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). A sentimental musical journey through Manhattan night life, aided by Pianist Erroll Garner, Singers Eartha Kitt, Hildegarde, Bill Tabbert, and Opera Soprano Lisa Delia Casa...