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Commenting on his latest book "The Sea Devil." Lowell Thomas said that he could throw several interesting sidelights on the hero, Count Luckner...
...acts them out on the platform. His strength is tremendous. One evening I saw him fear up 30 New York telephone directories, ripping them right in half. To illustrate his likability I can best fell you that Mayor Rolph of San Francisco was financially interested in a cargo that Luckner sent to the bottom. He was so taken in by the Count's congenial ways that he presented him with the golden Key to the city and sent a cable to President ven Rindenburg congratulating him on having such a man in the German Republic...
...pendulum has swung back, and already a popular magazine of large circulation has chronicled the exploits of Von Richthofen, the great German ace, with a surprising degree of authenticity. Now Lowell Thomas, author of "With Lawrence in Arabia," has told the amazing and almost unbelievably romantic story of Count Luckner's raids upon the Allied shipping of two oceans, and has given us a full-length portrait of this outstanding adventurer...
...Count Luckner seemed to have a penchant for disorderly conduct on the high seas from the time he first became cabin boy after running away from the patrician respectability of his home. Like the hero of the Aeneid, he suffered many hardships upon land and sea, at one time even becoming, as did John Masefield and an equally August Figure in American poetry, interested in keeping a saloon. It might be ungracious to continue the parallel of Mr. Masefield and the A. F. further, but it would appear that Count Luckner drank up most of his profits and even part...
...many of more classic stories of battle and exploration pale to insignificance. Already it is being noised abroad that the German fleet performed far more creditable exploits during the war than we were allowed to suppose at the time. The true accounts of the Battle of Jutland and Count Luckner's narrative have gone far to explode the myth of British naval supremacy. And, as it becomes less and less treasonous to believe facts, we will come to know that the English as a fighting race are only superior where they are present in overwhelming numbers with tremendous allied support...