Word: stamped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...usual fashion of making martyrs out of men who are traitors in their own country, Soviet Russia last month issued a postage stamp honoring Greek Communist Leader Emmanuel Glezos, 37, recently convicted in Greece for spying against his own country (TIME, Aug. 3). To the U.S.S.R.'s Ambassador Mikhail Sergeev, Greece angrily protested the issuance of the stamp. But Moscow replied that it had no responsibility in the matter, since the stamp was issued by the "independent" postal authorities of the U.S.S.R. Not to be outdone, the Greek government last week issued two stamps bearing the image of another...
Owing to the encroachment of the Mikado's set, the available acting area is, to say the least, minuscule. But James Peters has backed it with a delightfully drawn setting, and W. Reginald Parker has deployed his charges as flexibly as a postage stamp will allow...
This week Danville (pop. now 10,000) celebrated the 150th anniversary of Pioneer Surgeon McDowell's pioneering operation. Appropriately-for McDowell had once served as its postmaster-Danville's post office was the first to sell a new 4? commemorative stamp...
...centenary (he died in 1903), the aristocratic Whistler would have been crushed by something far smaller than a telegram. His Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, as Whistler titled the portrait of his mother, achieved the sentimental distinction of gracing a 3? stamp. With stamp collectors, at least, the waspish dandy had become an immortal...
...World Club, it still owns Aufbau). George turned Aufbau into a weekly, built up circulation by offering its subscribers English lessons, information about naturalization, jobs and housing. Today Aufbau reflects the change in its times: it features first-rate theater and opera reviews, columns on the stock market, chess, stamp collecting and photography. Its famed "search column," which helped refugees trace their families after World War II, has given way to a supplement devoted to aiding Jews in establishing their claims for restitution from the German government...