Word: luckner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your editorial comment concerning Count Luckner in TIME, April 28, you stated: "the Count likes to tell people he is 72, then show he is still in the prime by tearing telephone books in two." This is just another example of German boasting based upon bluff. Anyone can tear a telephone book in two if he knows the trick, which is as follows: Crease the book in the center with the thumbs until a triangle is formed. Then pull directly backward...
...evening of March 7, 1941, Count von Luckner, the old sea raider, had dinner at my home and during the course of the evening I showed him the story that you wrote about him in your Jan. 13 issue. The old Count was a little amused and puzzled too. Finally, he took his pen and wrote the following over the page...
...prepared for his World War II job by having trained himself as a "heart raider" on his world cruise. I also had a hell of a time getting through the British blockade as a fisherman. I am proud of being an honorary citizen of San Francisco. (Signed) Felix Count Luckner, Berlin...
...TIME'S Jan. 13 story cited rumors that Count Luckner, famed sea raider of World War I, was raiding again in the Pacific, not in his yacht Seeteufel ("Sea Devil") but in a 7,100-ton armed merchantman. Now 56-according to Wer Ist's, the German Who's Wh -the Count likes to tell people he is 72, then show he is still in the prime by tearing telephone books...
...Luckner? Though none of the prisoners could identify the captors, survivors of an Indian Ocean sinking who reached Hong Kong reported that the biggest troublemaker in the Pacific was the onetime British-owned Glengarry, a 7,100-ton merchantman captured by the Germans at Copenhagen and fitted out as an auxiliary cruiser. Its skipper: Count Felix von Luckner, who hoodwinked the British for eight months in World War I, while his Seeadler ran up a score of 15 ships in the Atlantic and Pacific, who boasted his exploits had never cost a life...