Word: lise
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...devil are constantly in contention, in which imps, cabalistic mysteries and ancient Talmudic heresies are as much a part of the passing show as a quarrel in the market place. The best of these eleven stories tells how Satan ruins the nicest girl in town. Satan contrives that Lise should marry a brilliant, homely scholar who is a secret disciple of Sabbatai Zevi, the False Messiah who taught that the world must become wholly corrupt before it could be made pure. Lise is corrupted by her husband's obscene sexual instruction. When he finally urges her to sleep with...
...LISE HOFMANN Palo Alto...
Eccles' story was that he had originally agreed to give his wife Lise an "amicable divorce" in return for withdrawal of her demand for $240 a month for support. But now, he said, his wife was making it difficult for him to see their nine-year-old son, and "I realized that if my fake divorce goes through, I may never see my son again...
...spoke up in the nick of time. The Senate had already favorably concluded its investigation of Lise's "prayer for relief," and passed it on for the Commons' rubber stamp. Her evidence, which varied only in details from the testimony often offered in New York courts: a pair of operatives from the Reliable Detective Bureau had rapped on the door of Room 201 in Montreal's Taft Hotel, surprised Eccles in shorts and one Joanne Laer in a well-mussed bed. Eccles' version was that he and the detectives drove to the hotel together, where...
...campaign by a small band of Socialist M.P.s to end parliamentary divorces. They have filibustered on every divorce bill before the House this session, hoping to force a change in the law. A House subcommittee summoned the cast of the Eccles case to Ottawa for a hearing. The verdict: Lise Eccles' divorce was denied, and the case was turned over to Mounties for possible prosecution for collusion and perjury. A cry is now being heard that Parliament should disentangle itself from divorce entirely and turn over its jurisdiction to a responsible court...