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The Greatest Professor of All   

I am a 54 yr old Southern Baptist Preacher living just south of Camden,SC in Sumter.   When my father died in 1994 he had all the back issues of NR, and he and I had read them all.  My favorite way was to start at the back and read to the front.  I have four earned degrees and have sat under professors from all the major universities, but WFB, Jr was the greatest professor of all.  Without a doubt he will be remembered by history as one of the top 10 most influential persons of the 20th century.  His two sailing books alone would rank him among our top English authors.  He simply knew what he believed, why he believed it, and why his belief was the best response to all the evidence at hand.  R.I.P.












 

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