Never met Igor, but he sounds like a wise man. I’ve been told the South Pacific back then was nothing like the musical.
I’m still transferring Igor’s personal history into a readable form, though he has been gone since 2000. When I finish it (three chapters) if you are interested, I will send it to you. His recall of detail still amazes me.
It seems he wrote it all within a six week period when we lived in Tucson in 1986. It is only now being transferred (page by page) into a readable form that one doesn’t get tired holding or reading.