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Celebrity Postage Stamps to be Unveiled in San Diego
Last Update: 12/30/2008 6:19 pm
SAN DIEGO - The U.S. Postal Service will hold a ceremony aboard the USS Midway in San Diego on May 29 to release a stamp depicting the late Bob Hope on the 106th anniversary of the entertainer's birth. The Hope stamp is one of a series of stamps the USPS will issue next year depicting prominent 1950s television figures. The full "Early TV Memories" set of 20 stamps, which will be issued Aug. 11 in Los Angeles, also honors:
Milton Berle;
"I Love Lucy" stars Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance;
Red Skelton;
puppet Howdy Doody;
"Dragnet" star Jack Webb;
Lassie;
William Boyd, best known as Hopalong Cassidy, and his horse Topper;
"You Bet Your Life" host Groucho Marx;
Dinah Shore;
Ed Sullivan;
"Kukla, Fran and Ollie";
Phil Silvers;
The Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore) and his horse Silver;
"Perry Mason" star Raymond Burr;
Alfred Hitchcock;
George Burns and Gracie Allen;
Ozzie and Harriet Nelson;
Steve Allen;
"Twilight Zone" creator and host Rod Serling; and
"The Honeymooners" stars Jackie Gleason and Art Carney.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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