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Died. Adolph Toepperwein, 92, longtime touring marksman for the Winchester firearms company, a Texas gunsmith's son who won the unofficial title of world's greatest sharpshooter in a 1907 shooting match during which he gunned out of the air all but nine of 72,500 pine cubes the size of alphabet blocks, only stopped then because he had exhausted all the .22-caliber ammunition In San Antonio; of heart disease; in San Antonio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 16, 1962 | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

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