For broadcast on CBS Radio Network stations
April 18-19:

[Stamp Collecting's Renaissance Man]

Another feather for John Hotchner's cap.

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

Hotchner is the president of the American Philatelic
Society, the 57-thousand member organization for stamp
collectors, as well as the author of a weekly column on
U-S stamps in Linn's Stamp News, the nation's biggest
stamp newspaper. Now he's joining the Citizen Stamp
Advisory Committee, the group that screens stamp subjects
and designs for the Postal Service.

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"I think I have a pretty good feel after writing for LINN'S
and corresponding with stamp collectors the last 20 years,
I think I have a pretty good feel for what the collecting
community likes and doesn't like, and I hope to be able to
bring that perspective to the committee."

Hotchner also finds time to exhibit his own collection,
edit a magazine, and advise the National Postal Museum,
he's married with 4 grown children, and he's a top official
in the State Department's Passport Office. How does he do
it all?

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"[laughs] Focus. I do what I do very intensely." 

And he doesn't need as much sleep as most of us.

That's Stamp Collecting this week.

I'm Lloyd de Vries, CBS News


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