Word: elissa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maintains three bases of operation. One is an office in downtown Helsinki, another his studio on the outskirts, which he calls "the fortification of quiet"; still another is his island hideaway, where he can plunge into the lake on a moment's notice with his pretty new wife Elissa. She is an architect herself (as was his first wife, Aino, who died in 1949), works on his staff...
...before making his first picture, to do 90 more concerts from Nova Scotia to Mexico. In June 1948, he reported to the studio and settled down in Beverly Hills, where he now lives in a two-story white stucco house with his adoring wife, their children, Colleen, 2, and Elissa, 8 months, his still-doting parents, the ancient Victrola of his childhood and a gold 45-r.p.m. record that RCA Victor presented to him for selling so many of its Vinylite cousins...
Another number on the program concerns a sorcerer who tricks a friar, a nun, a prostitute, and a page. David G. Black '53 will sing the spiritual, "Git on Board," as a background for another dance, by Elissa Isaacson '53, Lucinda Royce '54, and Bonnie Lee Strain...
...Checkers. The reason Ralph Kempner never married was quite simple. He fell in love with Mrs. Johnston's daughter-in-law Elissa, whose husband was often out of town. Primarily, Into Thin Air is a story of adultery, handled with a delicacy and understanding that few U.S. writers have brought to the subject. Author Beck manages with exquisite taste to give dignity and beauty to the love of Ralph and Elissa even as it swamps both of them in guilt. Neither has the strength to admit the guilt and ask Harold Johnston to agree to a divorce. When Johnston...