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...even more astonishing feat was accomplished by Cambridge Mathematician Alan Turing. Turing was a pure eccentric, a runner who "would on occasion arrive at conferences at the Foreign Office in London having run the 40 miles from Bletchley in old flannels and a vest with an alarm clock tied with binder twine around his waist." Turing was "wild as to hair, clothes and conventions" and given to "long, disturbing silences punctuated by a cackle." But by 1939, confounding all predictions, he had designed an "Ultra" machine that could decode Enigma's messages...
...Times's friends realized with sympathy that its queer deer story was only a shade more embarrassing than a story which the Times printed in September. Receiving a flash from Buenos Aires that the bovine championship of the Argentine had been, won by an animal named Esther Bletchley Challenge, the Times sonorously reported...
Argentinians were convulsed. Buenos Aires humorists chortled. To their beef-wise minds, nothing could have been more comical than making a cow out of potent Esther Bletchley Challenge, national champion bull for which Bovril Co. paid 30,000 pesos to publicize its beef extract...