Word: went
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...privilege, over the years, of publishing three works by Vladimir Nabokov, in whole or in part, before they became books. The most recent was Ada and, as TIME noted in quoting the author, he was less than pleased with the accompanying illustrations. You implied, I believe, that he went so far as to compose a critical cable, which he did not send. In fact, we did get a cable from him reading as follows: "Ada fragments beautifully printed but goodness what illustrations! That improbable young mammal and two revolting frogs...
...Earlier this year, an automatic mail sorter went haywire in a large Midwestern city with the result that eastbound mail was sent west. Several hundred thousand pounds of mail were shipped before the error was discovered...
Transcendent Issue. In the initial election round April 1, fully 74% of the electorate went for Yorty's opponents. Bradley led the field of 14 with 42%, a remarkable showing for a black candidate in a city where Negroes constitute less than one-fifth of the population. But Democrat Bradley is no insular ghetto politician. A lawyer and retired police lieutenant who had bootstrapped himself out of poverty (as youngsters, he and a brother took turns with their single suit), Bradley organized what he called a "coalition of conscience." It included blacks, Mexican-Americans, white liberal Democrats and independents...
Liller and "Jamesian Joe" Butwin tied for the MVP award. A special citation for duty above and beyond the call went to Jerry "Bull"Gerst, the corn-fed lowan, for stealing home from first on a pop fly and two errors and scoring the winning run. Gerst suffered multiple lacerations of the knees, but Stillman reports that he will be able to play in next week's rematch...
...editors turned over to Harvard blacks. The eight articles do not avoid repitition, but unlike the rest of Three Thirty Three, they are written with some verve and contain some information. We learn that two-thirds of Harvard blacks are second-generation college students and that three-quarters went to predominantly white high schools, that former Afro president Jeff Howard thinks "Afro-American Studies is the manifestation of a few political realities just as much at fair Harvard as at San Francisco State,"and that whites are ill-advised to try instantly to pump black acquaintances for their views...