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Great Contemporaries
Great Contemporaries: Sir Anthony Montague Browne
13
Apr
2016
Great Contemporaries: William Bourke Cockran, the Great Mentor
24
Feb
2016
By FRED GLUECKSTEIN
Churchill’s capacious memory was well stocked with phrases he first heard from Bourke Cockran. “The earth is a generous mother” was the best known, but Churchill also recited his most basic beliefs in Cockran’s words.
Great Contemporaries: Frederick Lindemann (“The Prof”)
17
Feb
2016
5
Great Contemporaries: Louis Botha
15
Aug
2015
Winston Churchill’s Great Contemporaries: Alan Turing
08
Jul
2015
4
By THE CHURCHILL PROJECT
Since the early 1990s it has been stated and endlessly repeated that Winston Churchill said Alan Turing OBE FRS (1912-1954) “made the single biggest contribution to Allied victory in the war against Nazi Germany.” Turing’s contribution was indeed great, but there is no record of Churchill having issued such a singular encomium.