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Re Fischer/Nabokov, I'm hazy on the date,and I don't have the book in hand,
but one day when I was in my office at Sports Illustrated in the Time-Life
Building, I got a call from Robert Cantwell, another writer on the staff.
"Come around to my office," he said. "I've got Bobby Fischer here. I want you
to meet him." I grabbed a copy of Nabokov's Poems and Problems and went to
Cantwell's office. I shook hands with Fischer, opened the book to a problem
and handed it to him. Fischer glanced at it for all of five or 10 seconds,
smiled, and said, "Hmmm, cute," and gave the book back to me.
Robert H. Boyle
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but one day when I was in my office at Sports Illustrated in the Time-Life
Building, I got a call from Robert Cantwell, another writer on the staff.
"Come around to my office," he said. "I've got Bobby Fischer here. I want you
to meet him." I grabbed a copy of Nabokov's Poems and Problems and went to
Cantwell's office. I shook hands with Fischer, opened the book to a problem
and handed it to him. Fischer glanced at it for all of five or 10 seconds,
smiled, and said, "Hmmm, cute," and gave the book back to me.
Robert H. Boyle
**************Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music.
(http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp003000000025
48)
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
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