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Very. Look up "defenestration of Prague" in a reliable en-
cyclopaedia, and you'll find at least two. In about 1947
"Ian Masaryk" (Sp??), who was that day to have addressed
a United Nations support group dinner in Cincinnati had
a similar "accident", and this is thus the fourth that I
know of. At the time it happened, those of us in Cincinnati
expecting his appearance were given practically no details.
(I'm writing in part from my personal memory of events, and
in part from what I had previously learned in Modern European
History). But we middle aged ones are said to have better
recall of past events than of more recent ones: where, in
fact, is my martini?
John Rea
TA Colquhoun wrote:
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> Is there something slightly Nabokovian about this?
>
> From The Times today:
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> Chess world mourns tragic death of young female star
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> By Grainger Laffan in Prague and Adam Fresco
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> The British chess world was in shock today after one of its rising
> female stars died in a fall from an eighth floor balcony during the
> world’s biggest tournament.
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cyclopaedia, and you'll find at least two. In about 1947
"Ian Masaryk" (Sp??), who was that day to have addressed
a United Nations support group dinner in Cincinnati had
a similar "accident", and this is thus the fourth that I
know of. At the time it happened, those of us in Cincinnati
expecting his appearance were given practically no details.
(I'm writing in part from my personal memory of events, and
in part from what I had previously learned in Modern European
History). But we middle aged ones are said to have better
recall of past events than of more recent ones: where, in
fact, is my martini?
John Rea
TA Colquhoun wrote:
>
> Is there something slightly Nabokovian about this?
>
> From The Times today:
>
>
>
> Chess world mourns tragic death of young female star
>
> By Grainger Laffan in Prague and Adam Fresco
>
>
> The British chess world was in shock today after one of its rising
> female stars died in a fall from an eighth floor balcony during the
> world’s biggest tournament.
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