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Postal Service Set To Put Its Stamp(s) On The New Year
On the 100th anniversary of her birth the great actress will be honored on a commemorative stamp, the 14th in the Legends of Hollywood Series. A 10-time Academy Award nominee, Davis won twice, for her roles in "Dangerous" (1935) and "Jezebel" (1938). And speaking of centennials, the same year Davis was born, actor Jack Norworth wrote "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," the song still famed in the seventh inning stretch. Postal officials hope buyers will root, root, root for a stamp (below right) based on a 19th-century baseball card recalling that special melody next year. Also in 2008 the post office will launch a new multiyear Flags of Our Nation series, a 60-stamp set scheduled to include the Stars and Stripes as well as the flags of each state, the District of Columbia and territories.
Following in the fall will be a set with the flags of the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Kansas. Among the other new postage stamps scheduled for this year are: •Year of the Rat in January, marking the Chinese lunar new year. People born in the Year of the Rat are said to be industrious, adaptable and ambitious. • Charles W. Chesnutt will be honored with the 31st stamp in the Black Heritage series. Chesnutt was a pioneering writer recognized today as a major innovator among literary realists who probed the color line in American life. •American Journalists: Martha Gellhorn , who covered the Spanish Civil War, World War II and the Vietnam War in a long career that broke new ground for women; John Hersey , whose most famous work, "Hiroshima,'' describes what happened when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city; George Polk , a young reporter killed covering the strife in postwar Greece; Ruben Salazar , the first Mexican-American journalist to have a major voice in mainstream news media; and Eric Sevareid, a broadcast journalist for CBS.
•Vintage Black Cinema set based on posters for five early movies. (below left) •The Art of Disney: Imagination, featuring animated characters.0 •Olympic Games, to coincide with the Games to be held from Aug. 8-24 in Beijing, China. •Latin Jazz, with a tropical evening scene. •Alzheimer's Awareness, calling attention to the most common form of dementia among older people. •Four Holiday Nutcrackers stamps picturing Santa, a king, a captain and a drummer. •Traditional Christmas Stamp featuring a detail of a painting titled "Virgin and Child With the Young John the Baptist" by Italian master Sandro Botticelli.
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