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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (656)	3/19/2008 9:26:49 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9626

Oh yeah, Louis L'Amour taught me more about loving books than any teacher ever did. I started with Edgar Rice Burroughs. Keep that book. It's an important one for you. she caught me reading the book in class for the third time in the same day.

To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (656)	3/19/2008 5:10:40 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9626

He published a short story in the March 1964 Boy's Life that I vividly recall because of the magazine cover illustration... Sunjammer John Merton, a spaceship designer, develops and promotes a lightweight spacecraft with a large area of solar sail, to be powered entirely by radiation pressure — the so-called wind from the sun. The sun-yachts start their journey in Earth's orbit, and, pushed simply by sunlight, can achieve a speed of two thousand miles an hour within a day. en.wikipedia.org Found the magazine cover on Spanish eBay, of all places...