BRITISH WAR INVENTOR
Britons last week were thankful to the man they had once laughed down on the balloon idea: a brilliant Oxford professor named Frederick Alexander Linderaann (says New York ‘ Time,’ of September 23). One _of Winston Churchill’s closest buddies, who last spring used to give the Prime Minister relaxation by beating him at Monopoly and Lexicon, Dr Lindenrann has proposed many weird but useful theories of war. Fellow student of Einstein, such a wizard with figures that he can instantly square or cube root any large figure, bo once worked out a mathematical formula for taking planes out of spins—which worked. He was thought to have something to do- with the R.A.E.’s inflammable calling cards.
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Evening Star, Issue 23729, 9 November 1940, Page 3
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