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