brendan bracken. it's confusing. there are two of them. this is brendan bracken. irishman. mysterious. attached himself to churchill in 1923 as a young fixer. a fixer. then, when churchill became chancellor, went off to pursue his own publishing career, and amazingly, in his 20's still, put together a publishing empire that is still there today. the magazine is called the banker, the general practitioner, the financial news that became a major part of the financial times. and he bought 50% of "the economist." owned by aer 50% was syndicate led by the man below him. every name as which churchillian should be intimately familiar with, and yet when i talk about him in britain, no are really knows who he is. but he is the guy who rescued churchill financially in every way. he rescued him from bankruptcy in 1938. he allowed him to continue as a politician. what happened is this. when churchill's finances imploded in march 1938, churchill handed his stockbroking papers and said something like -- this is not recorded, so i am surmising -- brendan, unless you can help me, i may be finished, bec