Word: luckner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Count von Luckner Milestone [April 22] failed to mention one of the accomplishments for which he was best known, his astounding physical strength. In the 1930s, as his unofficial host in Panama, I took him to dinner on the carrier Saratoga. He was asked if he could tear any book in half, and he said yes. The officers produced first a Sears, Roebuck catalogue, which he caught in midair; it barely touched his hands and went sailing back, torn crosswise from the back into two pieces. They handed him a 1,700-page dictionary, and he grasped...