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For broadcast on CBS Radio Network stations September 1-2, 2007:
 
Flags, Culture and Great Americans

The Stamp Collecting Report, I'm Lloyd de Vries. 

Next year is the Year of the Rat, and it will mark the beginning of a new series of Lunar 
New Year stamps. But you won't find a rodent in the stamp design shown to journalists 
recently....it shows paper lanterns.

Other notable stamp subjects next year will include Bette Davis in the Legends of Hollywood 
Series and the centennial of a song.

["Take Me Out To The Ball Game" music]
RUNS :04 and under
 
To Dave Failor, who manages the U-S stamp program, the key stamps next year will be the 
first in a series of state and territory flags, issued in rolls.

"People will see these coming through the mail, and hopefully it'll spur on people to do 
some stamp collecting."
RUNS :05
 
Another subject next year will be CBS News Correspondent Eric Sevareid, in a set of five 
journalists. Other topics include scientists,  another Disney set, Black Cinema, the 
Olympics, Latin Jazz, and Alzheimer's Awareness.

For details, visit virtual-stamp-club-dot-com

And that's Stamp Collecting this week. I'm Lloyd de Vries, CBS News.

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Download this report as an MP3 sound file.

Flags, Culture and Great Americans

The Stamp Collecting Report, I'm Lloyd de Vries. 

Next year is the Year of the Rat, and it will mark the beginning of a new series of Lunar 
New Year stamps.But you won't find a rodent in the stamp design shown to journalists 
recently....it shows paper lanterns.

Other notable stamp subjects next year will include Bette Davis in the Legends of Hollywood 
Series and the song "Take Me Out To The Ball Game."

["Take Me Out To The Ball Game" music]
[establish :04 and under]

"We wanted to have kind of a feel of back Turn of the Century, the early 1900s, and so we 
have an old baseball trading card that we found, and we're going to use elements of that."
RUNS :08
 
To Dave Failor, who manages the U-S stamp program, the key stamps next year will be the 
first in a series of state and territory flags, issued in rolls -- which are popular with 
mailers.

"People will see these coming through the mail, and hopefully it'll spur on people to do 
some stamp collecting."
RUNS :05
 
There will be another Disney set, because there were more characters and--

"The stamps have just been phenomenal for us over the last few years."
RUNS :04
 
The social awareness issue will deal with Alzheimer's.

"As we've gone down the path of featuring that subject on a postage stamp, everybody kind 
of has a story to tell."
RUNS :05
 
Other subjects include journalists, scientists, Black Cinema, the Olympics, and Latin Jazz.

In a change of policy, the Minnesota statehood stamp will go on sale everywhere in the 
country, not just the Gopher State. Previous statehood stamps had limited distribution.

I'm Lloyd de Vries of The Virtual Stamp Club. For more about stamps and stamp collecting, 
visit virtual-stamp-club-dot-com

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