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...year old "living Buddha," who had 17 chances to enter heaven but preferred to return to earth to help others become as holy as he, visited the College yesterday, attending a Mongolian class and staying with his godson in Adams House...
Dilowa isn't physically so old, godson David Lattimore '52 explained. But his soul is the 18th reincarnation of an early saint named Dilowa. When the original holy man died, local Lama leaders picked the first male born in the area as the obvious reincarnation. The process has continued over since, subject to political ocrruption of the choosing authorities...
Dilowa came to the United States last year at the bidding of the United States government and his old friend Owen Lattimore, Professor in the Page School of international Relations at Johns Hopkins and father of godson David. The (physically) 60-year-old Gegen tells seminar students in the Page School about Mongolian history and customs, and spends his spare time at home with the Lattimores in Baltimore...
...yarn's hero is a Molnaresque playwright. Its presumable moral: when it comes to finding a happy ending for a sorry mess, only a playwright will do. The playwright's young godson is engaged to a beautiful prima donna. Late one night, godfather and godson overhear the lady, through thin walls, in a vocal and vigorous love scene with an actor. While the godson threatens suicide, the godfather hits on how to save the day: the guilty lovers had really been rehearsing-a play which has still to be written...
...plot concerns the romance of an unbelievably wonderful young girl and a man of the type supposedly indigenous to the acting profession, the middle-aged egocentric. Complications are provided by the actor's mistress and his godson a "boy next door" kind of character. Mr. Herbert, who is "no boy next door" himself, gets a good deal of obvious pleasure in awarding the girl to her elder swain...