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outside the mansion.
It was here that the British unraveled
the astonishing mystery of Enigma,
translating invaluable information
about military plans and a cable about
the Final Solution.
Enigma actually was a machine,
which looked something like a type-
writer. It had been invented in the
1920s by two German businesses as a
way to keep their trade secrets private.
The name came from Sir Edward
Elgar's Enigma Variations; the machine
was adapted by the German army and
Q: I seem to remember that Bletchley navy in 1928.
Park, where during World War II the
Enigma afforded an astonishingly
infamous Enigma code was finally
complex code. It featured removable
broken, has a Jewish connection. Is
rotors that produced different letters (it
that really the case?
was believed to be possible to rearrange
the letters six sextillion times in a single
A: It is indeed. Bletchley Park was an
English estate built by Sir Herbert
day; the Germans said it would require
Leon, a Jewish businessman.
1,000 code breakers 900 million years
Little is known about the life of
to unravel the code). It could be under-
stood only by using another Enigma
Leon. He was born in 1883 and his
machine and on the same schedule.
father was a stockbroker. Leon followed
in his father's professional footsteps and
The Brits finally managed to break
made a great deal of money — enough, the code thanks to a few Polish crypt-
in fact, to purchase a
analysts who had broken
from the Nazis and with
small house which he
made into a mansion,
the genius of Alan Turing, a
known as Bletchley Park.
mathematics professor at
King's College.
The style of Bletchley
After the war, Bletchley
Park was, in a word,
Park became a training cen-
eclectic. Leon enjoyed
traveling and he incorpo-
ter for those studying air-
traffic control as well as a
rated various styles of
teachers' training college. In
architecture and design,
1991, it was abandoned,
which he had seen
with plans to be torn down.
around the world, into
At the last minute, how-
his estate.
Herbert Leon
ever, officials decided to
Bletchley Park came to
save Bletchley Park; and
feature huge and diverse
today it is a museum recalling the hero-
rooms, numerous fireplaces and exten-
ic efforts that took place there during
sive wood paneling.
Leon lived at Bletchley until his
World War II.
You can take a virtual tour of the
death in 1926. His wife, Fanny, lived
museum by visiting
until 1937, at which point Bletchley
wwvv.bletchleypark.org.uk on the
Park was abandoned and set to be
demolished.
Web. ❑
Then England's Government
Property Agency came by. The British
Those who sent in solutions to the
government was looking for a place to
Aug.
13 puzzle about Rachel who was
relocate its code-breaking office, then
learning
to drive are:
in downtown London. Bletchley Park
was regarded the ideal spot for many
Marc Barron of Birmingham
reasons, notably for the fact that it was
Kenneth Brown of WestBloomfield
set between Oxford and Cambridge,
Lenore Dorfman of Bloomfield Hills
home to two universities where the
Bernice Gill of Southfield
leading British mathematical minds of
Ingrid
Grossberg of West Bloomfield
the day worked.
Sue
Himeihoch
of West Bloomfield
In its day, Bletchley Park was known
Rae
Ruskin
of
Huntington
Woods
as "Station X" and served as headquar-
Zelda
Schwey
of
Oak
Park
ters for the secret section of M 16,
Elly Shevin of Oak Park
Britain's military intelligence unit.
Marshall Spinner of West Bloomfield
More than 12,000 men and women
worked at Bletchley Park during World
War II, living in temporary huts set just

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the largest toy manufacturer in the
world. Popularity was, however, brief
Just a few years after the firm hit its
peak, trains were a thing of the past.
Now, children wanted cars and air-
planes.
In 1959, Cowen retired and sold all
his shares of Lionel stock to his great
nephew, a young lawyer named Roy
Cohn.
Cowen died in 1965.

-Clive Barnes NEW YORK TIMES

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