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Sophomore pitcher Nils Nilson struck out the side in the seventh and final inning of Saturday's JV baseball game against Tufts, and when the last strike was called, Nilson had himself a no-hitter. It was his fifteenth strikeout of the game as only three Jumbos reached base while the Crimson batters were driving home 11 runs...
...Vladimir Nabokov published Ada, his fifteenth novel. He was then 70. In his youth he had identified and attached his name to a new species of butterfly, created the first Russian crossword puzzle, and translated Alice in Wonderland into his native tongue. Later, in the thirties, under the pseudonym V.V. Sirin, he had written what many critics consider the finest Russian novel of the century, The Gift. In the fifties, with a book called Lolita, he had put the word "nymphet" into the dictionary. Ada's masterful complexity seemed a natural culmination to the long list of novels, stories, poems...
After a year at Boston's Emerson College and another three with the Fifteenth Air Force near Foggia, Italy (since enshrined as Archie's old unit), Lear was laid off his first job with a Manhattan publicity firm. Then he went bankrupt with his own novelty ashtray business. He took his wife and infant daughter to Los Angeles, where half of his luck improved. He at least survived as a door-to-door salesman of furniture and baby pictures...
Angola has been in the hands of the Portuguese since Prince Henry the Navigator commanded the empire's fleets from Lisbon in the fifteenth century. In 1482, Diogo Cao became the first Westerner to set eyes on the land now called Angola...
...incumbents are both seeking re-election. Rep. John J. Toomey is seeking his fifteenth consecutive two-year term, and Rep. Michael J. Lombard hopes to gain his fourth full term in the Massachusetts House...