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“One of the great captains of all time grudgingly surrendered to death this week. Yet even to this last overwhelming enemy, Sir Winston Spencer Churchill allowed no clear, decisive victory. For nine days while the world watched and grieved, the 90-year-old warrior lay in a coma .... Unconscious and in his dotage, the leader who inspired Britain’s finest hour still managed to muster a display of courage and fortitude that could only be described as Churchillian,” memorialized Newsweek of the man “who in his own lifetime had brushed as close to immortality as any human can.”