Word: liz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deal, Virginia's Gilpin family, which has controlled the company since 1943, agreed to sell most of its stock to a group including Mrs. E. C. ("Liz" Whitney) Person, Banker John W. Hanes and Financier Whitney Stone...
Choral, under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth '24, will sing music of Handel, Palestrina, Areadelt, and Schubert. Liz Kalkhurst '56 is a featured soloist...
...make matters worse, Liz gets that old loose-woman feeling whenever she is near the ship's captain ("Wave after wave of cigar smoke, eau de cologne and maleness broke over her"). Sure enough, she falls again, and thinks she has stripped her moral gears for keeps. At this logical jumping-off place for a French bedroom farce, Novelist Vincent Sheean, writing with perfect seriousness, has his heroine leap into Indian mysticism. In Sheean's handling, it is as crashingly pointless as a dive into an empty swimming pool...
...Liz heads for a guru (Hindu wise man) as soon as she hits Calcutta, and they swap profundities. She: "How can one know the time?" He: "You cannot know until it has come." She: "The readiness is all? But I am ready." He: "Then you cannot have long to wait." This kind of talk is a bit heady for Liz and she experiences darshan, "a certain electro-magnetic flow...
Well magnetized, she is drawn to a second guru's colony for would-be initiates. This turns out to be a clip joint where the believers turn in all their worldly goods to a matronly supply sergeant known as the "Divine Mother." Liz spots it all for a fake and heads back to Guru No. 1. In the meantime, steady old Charles has got himself into a diplomatic jam. Reminding herself of the guru's "Truth is in your own heart," Liz looks there, finds she still loves Charles, flies back to help him face the music...