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Topic: P.S. I Listened to Your Heart Beat (John Glenn)
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Aztecdoug
Member Posts: 1405
From: Huntington Beach
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 01-27-2007 09:17 PM
   
I just received back in the mail today a copy of John Glenn's 1964 book. I am just trying to figure out what its proper title is? Would it be, "P.S. I Listened To Your Heart Beat," or is it, "Letters To John Glenn?"I had been thinking all along that it was "P.S...", but the title page where Senator Glenn signed says, "Letters To John Glenn." |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-27-2007 09:21 PM
For what its worth, Amazon lists it as: P.S. I Listened to Your Heartbeat: Letters to John Glenn
with comments by John Glenn "I listened to your heart beat" — one postscript, in one letter, from one young girl — but it says volumes about the nearly a quarter of a million letters John Glenn has received since his orbital flight on February 20, 1962. It also says volumes about John Glenn's own reaction to the deluge of mail. Gwendolyn was not the only one. Nearly everyone in America and in all the nations of the world "listened to John Glenn's heart beat" on that eventful day. And hundreds of thousands of them wrote him to tell him so, to share their troubles, to express their feelings to their new hero. And later when John Glenn entered politics, thousands more wrote, advising him, praising him, or condemning him. And when he fell and was seriously injured, and had to drop out of the political race, thousands wrote offering advice, nostrums and prayers. And still the world "listens to the heart beat" of America's first orbiting astronaut, John Glenn. And, as John Glenn's comments throughout show clearly, he, too, has "listened to your heart beat." His comments, together with the letters, reveal a hero who is warm, humorous, God-fearing, and wise; and it reveals that the people of America, and of nations throughout the world, respond strongly when such a man appears. Here are 422 excerpts from John Glenn's morning mail, plus his comments. Here you may listen to the hearts of nations beat, and get to know better a truly amazing human being. - Hardcover, 250 pages
- World Book Encyclopedia (1964)
- ASIN: B000FMJAEA
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cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 01-28-2007 09:48 AM
I guess it depends on which edition you are referring to. My copy dates back to 1964, published by World Book Encyclopedia Science Service Inc. and the title is "Letters to John Glenn" both on the dust jacket and on the book. I guess the P.S. is a sub-title. |
Aztecdoug
Member Posts: 1405
From: Huntington Beach
Registered: Feb 2000
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posted 01-29-2007 12:45 PM
Thanks guys. I guess both the title and the publishing company name are a bit wordy!In any event I think it is an interesting book. I have personally referred to it as an anthropological (I hope that is a real word) core sample of society at the dawn of the space age. With all of the memoirs and books written about space flight from the participants and historians, this is a book of opinions and thoughts from the average Joe on the street. |
Explorer1
Member Posts: 88
From: Los Angeles, CA, USA
Registered: Apr 2019
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posted 11-30-2019 01:46 AM
I read once that during his time as an an astronaut, John Glenn received over 100,000 letters from fans and well wishers from his Friendship 7 flight — and, astoundingly, Glenn with his wife committed to answering each letter themselves. There are indications that Glenn was regularly responding to these letters a full year after his flight. What ultimately happened to Glenn's efforts to respond to all of these letters? Editor's note: Threads merged. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 11-30-2019 03:49 AM
Wasn't this the reason why NASA started to use the autopen signatures? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-30-2019 04:43 AM
NASA's use of the autopen began soon after the selection of the Mercury astronauts, in response to the mail for all seven pilots. While there are known John Glenn autopen patterns, most of the time he was at NASA he chose to hand sign instead. |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1751
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 11-30-2019 08:52 AM
Way back then I sent him a 2" x 3" card to sign and two Mercury US postage stamps with a Mercury capsule (yellow) orbiting a blue earth. He signed both. | |
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