TheCodeBreakers
the secret histories of the great names of English history—all actually
invalid decipherments of Shakespeare's plays tending to prove that
Bacon had written them, related by the gentle, upright, but self-deluded
woman who had "deciphered" them, Mrs. Elizabeth Wells Gallup. These
stories stirred Friedman's dormant interest; he began to do some of the
cryptology, and inevitably its puissant magic seeped like the fume of
poppies into his mind and spirit and intoxi-
caiea mm. "When it came to the cryptology," he recalled years later,
"something in me found an outlet."
An understatement. He soon found himself head of the Department of
Ciphers as well as the Department of Genetics at Riverbank. The
attraction he felt for cryptology was reinforced by the attraction he felt for
a cryptologist: the quick-witted and sprightly Miss Smith. In May of 1917
they were married and started the most famous husband-and-wife team
in the history of cryptology.
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