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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head of the English department. That honor belongs to Colonel Peter M. Moody of Cooleemee...
...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 was getting away with it well enough to pack...
...Manhattan's old Versailles club. Rodgers & Hammerstein spotted her there, signed her for Allegro (1947), outfitted her with a show-stopping song, The Gentleman Is a Dope. In Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate (1949), she raised double-entendre to a fine art, singing I'm Always True to You, Darling, in My Fashion. Since then, she has concentrated on elegant watering holes in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles. As she became perhaps the most velvety fixture in the velvet reaches of the posh supper clubs, she also helped set a trend toward acts with gimmicks...
...breath into her lungs. Other doctors cut into her chest, gave her heart electric shocks and massaged it by hand. But Able was dead. Next morning her carcass was flown in a small suitcase to Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, where an autopsy was performed by Colonel Joe M. Blumberg, who had orders not to mar unnecessarily her historic skin...
...that she does not intend to "rock the boat-yet." She has also taken over the top post in sales, will later delegate sales supervision to a vice president, "but he must prove his worth." Says Mrs. Ward: "It's a man's world, and I'm not sure that isn't the way it should be. So what happens is that a woman always works a little harder to prove a point. I don't have a bit of awe about the job. I'm very confident...