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After two years, Nabokov briefly joined the U.S. Army, where he was an instructor of military Russian and the chaplain’s assistant, whose duties included playing tennis and singing in the choir...
Commencement was beckoning, and with a family fortune to back him, Nabokov had the luxury to dabble in everything from medicine to aeronautical science to psychology. At the time, law called most loudly, and when Nabokov earned a top score on his LSAT, Harvard Law School sent him an acceptance letter...
Still an undergrad, Nabokov thought through his options. “While the performer in me was sometimes tempted by a leading role in courtroom drama, the idealism I still harbored made me less and less sanguine about the profession’s prospects,” he writes...
...instead, Nabokov bowed to his performer’s personality and started taking voice lessons. After graduation he entered the nearby Longy School of Music to study opera...
...side, Nabokov raced cars professionally. “The racing was his passion,” remembers Anne W. Elvins ’59, a former opera singer who used to host him at her Milan home...