Did Jerry Lucas Outsmart Himself? 1963

[In Dennis D’Agostino’s excellent Garden Glory: An Oral History of the New York Knicks (2003), Jerry Lucas talks about his special aptitude for memory tricks. “The thing that impresses people more than anything else is my ability to rearrange words and spell them out in alphabetical order,” said Lucas. “I began to do that as a boy when I had nothing to …