LL-L "Traditions" 2009.08.12 (01) [EN]

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From: Paul Finlow-Bates <wolf_thunder51 at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Tradition" 2009.08.10 (03) [DE-EN]

I was told about the Sandman as a kid, but my parents could easily have got
the idea from American films etc (including a song by the Andrews Sisters I
believe).  I'll have to ask my mother if she heard of him when she was
little. Since her parents would have grown up in the late 19th C they would
be unlikely to be very affected by American media.

Paul
Derby
England

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From: tighe <tighe at sympatico.ca
 Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2009.08.11 (07) [EN]

Hi Folk:

Tom Wrote:

Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2009.08.11 (03) [EN]

 In 1979 the SF story "Logan's Run" was made into a successful movie
starring Michael York and the voluptuous Jennie Agguter.
It concerned a human paradise under a sealed dome where one could have
anything at all except a 30th birthday.
Those trying to escape were hunted down and shot by Secret Police known as
The Sandmen.

John le Carre fans will recognize that the antagonist in his trilogy *The
Hunt for Karla* is a Russian spy-master. He is referred to as "the sandman"
because he puts his enemies "to sleep".  The British secret service
protagonist  is, like le Carre, a German schooler.

kind regards
 Gerald Tighe

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