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Subject: [Leica] OT - was Ken Rockwell, now Tom Corbett, Space Cadet
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Fri Mar 23 20:14:02 2007
References: <C2285FCD.4BD15%mark@rabinergroup.com> <DBE8F0BC-D1D6-448B-B368-F7E1F91E92ED@bex.net>

I read these avidly as a child.

"All clear, forward and up!"

Adam

On 3/22/07, Howard Ritter <hlritter@bex.net> wrote:
> OMG! Someone else who's heard of, and remembers, Tom Corbett, Space
> Cadet, and Astro the single-named colonist kid from Venus. Remember
> cocky Roger Manning and hard-ass Major Connell?
>
> Funny, but I strongly identified a high school friend with Astro and
> another with Roger Manning, close enough fits that they could have
> been models for the characters. I suppose I thought of myself as Tom.
> I had the whole set of 7 or 8 hardbacks in the series. Happiest
> reading of my adolescent years. Somewhere along the line my sainted
> mother gave 'em away....
>
> --howard
>
>
> On Mar 22, 2007, at 4:31 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>
> > I think of him as Astro in Tom Corbett space cadet but I have an
> > odd memory.
> > http://www.moosepeterson.com/gear/index.html
>
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In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] OT - the truth about Ken Rockwell)
Message from hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter) ([Leica] OT - was Ken Rockwell, now Tom Corbett, Space Cadet)