Mae West: Jack Dempsey

It was "lust at first sight" the night that MAE WEST met Jack Dempsey.
• • The world heavyweight champion came up to see Mae onstage at the premiere of "The Mimic World of 1921." One of the characters Mae played was "Shifty Liz."
• • After the performance, the champ and the actress enjoyed their own private performance in her dressing room.
• • Since today is May 31st, the Mae West Blog commemorates the dashing prizefighter who died on 31 May 1983. Jack Dempsey held the title from 1919-1926.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: Dave Apollon

Few people made MAE WEST laugh louder than Dave Apollon.
• • Born in Kiev, Russia on 23 February 1897, Dave's heavy "sour cream accent" was so hilarious that Mae West knew exactly how to increase his comic capital when they worked together during 1922 in the ill-fated "Ginger Box Revue" [slated to open at the Greenwich Village Theatre in Sheridan Square].
• • When a shady producer short-changed the cast by not producing the expected costumes and scenery, Mae pushed Dave Apollon onstage to deliver a prologue. Apologizing for the third-rate production the audience was about to see, Apollon muttered under his breath, "Ach! It was better under the czar with the lousy pogroms!"
• • Dave Apollon also worked as a mandolin player.
• • The vaudevillian died in Las Vegas at age 75 during the month of May: 30 May 1972.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: 1932

MAE WEST co-starred in the 1932 "speakeasy" film "Night After Night" with two actresses who are linked to the month of May.
• • Constance Cummings, who was 22 when she played a socialite Jerry Healy in the movie, was born in Seattle, Washington on 15 May 1910. At age 95, the actress died in Oxfordshire, England on 23 November 2005.
• • Constance's blueblood persona was based on the heiress Barbara Hutton (who inherited the Woolworth fortune), who had once lived in a rowhouse on West 56th Street – – before it was turned into a ginmill operated by gangster Larry Fay.
• • Wynne Gibson, who played the "tough" cookie Iris Dawn [the dame George Raft's character Joe Anton is getting tired of], died on 15 May 1987 of cerebral thrombosis.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: Memorial

MAE WEST had many fans in the military.
• • Her 1926 play "Sex" featured actors clad as sailors.
• • A flotation device was famously nicknamed "the Mae West."
• • Mae never liked to make her humor political nor bipartisan. For all that, Mae West was proudly all American. How many actresses dressed in a Statue of Liberty outfit – – twice?
• • Edith Head designed this iconic costume for Mae West in 1970 for the film "Myra Breckinridge."
• • On Memorial Day, we salute a unique creation that was made in the United States of America: Mae West.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: May 1956

"MAE WEST Says Every Man Has Sex Appeal," trumpeted the headlines of various newspapers around the country on 1 May 1956.
• • At the time, the Brooklyn bombshell was touring New York City's night clubs and hitting other venues with her muscleman act, and the press obliged by pumping out interviews.
• • Commenting that sometimes men who are not good-looking are even sexier than Clark Gable, Mae said, "Mr. Eisenhower's a leader, and a leader has drive and decision and power, and that makes a man a man."
• • "Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver have got it, too," Mae said.
• • The actress added that she is "strictly nonpartisan" in her views on the male species.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: Hard Rock

Shades of MAE WEST wannabe-ism way out West!
• • This weekend at the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas, you can buy Janet Jackson's "Mae West" costume [created in 1973-1974].
• • According to Guernsey's: "Young Janet Jackson wore this tailored Mae West costume while performing with her family in a 1974 Las Vegas stage act. The dress is fashioned in shades of a pink satin-like material and embellished with sequins and layers of tulle at the hemline. Includes a matching ornate hat. Excellent condition."
• • Auctioneer: Guernsey's [108 East 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021]; tel 212-794-2280.
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Mae West: Jack Sparrow

MAE WEST and other vaudevillians who created a unique character — and, often, a memorable tag line and signature look — paved the way for Johnny Depp's "Jack Sparrow," notes a recent column in a Pennsylvania newspaper.
• • According to columnist Sharon Eberson, "Jack Sparrow joins a unique line of iconic characters." Eberson elaborates: From The Marx Brothers to John "Die Hard" McClane, actors have created characters who burst onto the scene, grab a foothold in pop culture and are instantly recognizable ever-after.
• • Without benefit of a book, play, TV show, or any other medium to start them on their way, these iconic characters are created with a unique look and often, a signature line. And best of all for the actor and the studio who collaborate on a popular character, along with adoration comes a sequel or two — or more.
• • About those zany Marx Brothers: Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo took their insane brand of humor to the screen from hit plays (George S. Kaufman wrote some of their vehicles). And other early film characters arrived from vaudeville stages: MAE WEST, W.C. Fields, Al Jolson, Burns & Allen, etc.
• • These vaudevillians paved the way for the iconic characters of today, who are instantly recognizable by the steely stare, a beatific smile or the slant of a three-corner hat.
• • Take, for instance, Captain Jack Sparrow and the "Pirates of the Caribbean."
• • Previous summer blockbusters telling the further stories of Spider-Man(comic book) and the animated Shrek (children's book) came with ready-made backgrounds for talented actors Tobey Maguire and Mike Myers.
• • For Depp and director Gore Verbinski, there was a Disneyland ride about generic pirates, period. . . .
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• • Source: Pittsburgh Post Gazette
• • Byline: Sharon Eberson
• • Published: 24 May 2007
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Mae West: Coming Soon

Come up and see MAE WEST the first week of June.
• • Where: The Biography Channel

• • When: Monday 4th June 2007 — 6:00 PM

• • The producers of this TV segment described it —— somewhat inaccurately —— like this: "Discover the life of this actress who wrote her own dialogue and set herself up as a provocative sex symbol and as the mistress of verbal innuendo. She appeared on Broadway in Sex, The Drag [sic],and Diamond Lil and her films included She Done Him Wrong, I'm No Angel, and Goin' to Town."
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Mae West: Margaret Hamilton

MAE WEST's film "My Little Chickadee" [1940] featured an American character actress who died in May.
• • Severe looking and sharp featured, Margaret Hamilton was born in Cleveland, Ohio on 9 December 1902. Hamilton played the role of prudish Mrs. Gideon, who faints on the train when Flower Belle Lee, Mae's character, pulls out two guns.
• • Then there is the scene where Cuthbert J. Twillie [W. C. Fields] is told that there is nothing good about Flower Belle Lee by the holier-than-thou Mrs. Gideon [Margaret Hamilton], and he responds: "I can see what's good. Tell me the rest!"
• • Best known for her iconic portrayal of The Wicked Witch of the West, who imprisons the ruby-slippered Dorothy from Kansas [Judy Garland] in The Wizard of Oz, Margaret Hamilton died on 16 May 1985 in Salisbury, Connecticut.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: Silent Film

MAE WEST wanted to break into the screen scene. Here is an outtake from a silent screen test in New York City during the early 1920s.
• • Shortly after meeting the heavyweight champ in 1921, Mae also did a screen test with her paramour Jack Dempsey on 168th Street in Manhattan.
• • How many other "silent screen tests" are out there featuring the Brooklyn bombshell?
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: "Afrodainty"

How many children would recognize MAE WEST in an amusing parody of a Greek hero penned for the elementary school set?
• • Kirkus Reviews did not get too enthusiastic over J.P. Homer's The Thesoddy [authored by J.D. Peterson], published by Aventine Press in 2006. However, this title is still popping up in recent book reviews.
• • In this slim [108 pages] paperback, Thesod follows roughly the same path as Odysseus, with a stop at a place similar to the Land of the Lotus Eaters and an excursion into the Underworld — or rather, the “Underwhere” — a land that may elicit a few laughs from readers familiar with The Odyssey.
• • And beautiful “Afrodainty,” the goddess of love, turns out to be a Mae West type who invites the hero Thesod to come up and see her sometime.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: Ontario Oddity

Tabloids were abuzz recently with the news that a certain former athlete, who murdered his beautiful estranged wife, Nicole, was refused service at a restaurant not far from the Kentucky Derby. Perhaps that sparked this questionable "remembrance" about MAE WEST.
• • Writing for the Daily Bulletin, Canadian columnist David Allen recalls an Ontario diner owner who said, 'Go east, Mae West'!
• • According to David Allen: Ford Lunch was a cafe at Euclid and A streets in Ontario in the mid-century. Ford was sometimes visited by people headed for Palm Springs, including Hollywood celebrities, since A Street, now Holt Boulevard, was the pre-freeway route. But apparently not all of the notables were allowed in, according to Darlene Blocker of Ontario, whose grandfather, Gene Rock, cooked at Ford and at nearby Coffee John's.
• • "I remember a story of Mae West stopping at Ford Lunch on her way to Palm Springs," Darlene Blocker said. "The owner, Frank Hobart, wouldn't serve her 'type'." . . .
• • Source: The Daily Bulletin [Ontario, Canada]
• • Byline: David Allen, Columnist
• • Published: 20 May 2007
• • Can we trust Darlene Blocker's memory when it comes to Mae West?
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Mae West: May 1927

It was in May 1927 that MAE WEST returned to the Women's Workhouse on Welfare [now renamed Roosevelt] Island.
• • This time, however, she was the invited guest of a group of society women who were bent on social reform, and who wanted to inspect the prison and inmates for themselves. The actress gaily led the tour, trailing a string of newsmen and photographers.
• • Mae was even delighted to show these Park Avenue females the paddy wagon that she had ridden in after her arrest on 9 February 1927. In the photos, the women are all smiling – – but what must they have been thinking?
• • One of Mae's duties in the workhouse was to clean the jail's library. It struck her that there were so few books to read here. When a magazine offered Mae $1,000 to write an article about her experiences as an inmate, the Broadway star donated her check to the women's workhouse to fund the "Mae West Memorial Library."
• • The yellowed page you are looking at was part of the article Mae wrote, published in 1927.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: Kalamazoo

MAE WEST is still being invited to movie premieres – – and she turns up.
• • Mae West, Humphrey Bogart, Groucho, and Harpo Marx ( – – Chico, Zeppo, and Gummo seemed to be MIA – – ), Marilyn Monroe, Bettie Page, Judy Jetson, Shirley Temple, Myrna Loy, the Blues Brothers, Cruella DeVille, Dorothy from the Land of Oz, and many more packed the Union with KAFI festival pass-holders sipping cocktails.
• • It took five stretch limos to truck the stars around the block to the Rave, where the red carpet, paparazzi, "Roger Ebert'' and "Joan Rivers'' awaited.
• • Cartoon fans and animators from all over the country, iconic movie queens from Tinseltown's Golden Age, and characters from fantasy lands all showed up in Kalamazoo, Michigan for the Hollywood-style advance screening of "Shrek theThird'' on Thursday night [May 17th, 2007]. The event was part of the kick-off to the Kalamazoo Animation Festival International.
• • The pre-Shrekapalooza party at the Union Cabaret and Grille provided reporters with a rare chance to interview Clark Gable. "I am quite pleased to see how many people are coming out to see this green guy,'' said Gable, who died in 1960. Clark Gable was not too familiar with Shrek, he admitted: "It's been a while since I've been out to see a movie.'' . . .
• • Source: The Kalamazoo Gazette
• • Byline: Mark Wedel [Published: Friday, 18 May 2007]
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: May 1932

It was May 1932 and MAE WEST was hip-deep in negotiations with Paramount Pictures. They came to an agreement, confirmed the Los Angeles Record, and Mae was heading West.
• • On 13 June 1932, reporter Relman Morin gave readers this account:
• • According to Morin: We are about to be favored with visits from two more leading citizens of New York. Ely Culbertson, who talks the best game of contract bridge in the world is one. Mae West, the lady who composes dirty plays right out of her head, is the other. Each has signed a contract to grace the talking screen.
• • Of Ely, there is little left to be said. . . . .
• • Mae West, according to the dispatches, has signed a contract with Paramount to appear in the filmization of Louis Bromfield’s story, Number 35 [sic].
• • Mae has much, aside from her literary talent, to recommend her. She must be about 40 years old, but, to see her, you wouldn’t suspect that she is a day over 39. Mae began her professional career as a blues-warbler many years ago.
• • Her rendition of “Frankie and Johnny” is considered by many to be second in excellence only to Tibbett’s delivery of the “Toreador Song” from Carmen. Mae usually sings “Frankie and Johnny” to an accompaniment of what you might call muscle-dancing. The only parts of her that do not move when she is in the throes of song, are the soles of her feet. She plays the piano with unusual agility.
• • Mae is better known, however, as a playwright than a singer. Her creative works are called “Sex,” “Diamond Lil,” and “Pleasure Man.” Each of these enjoyed a long and happy life in the Capital of American Drama except “Pleasure Man.” It was closed, after a record-breaking week [sic], by the police.
• • It took New York’s Finest much longer to catch up with Miss West than it did for Capt. MacD. Jones to get wise to Aristophanes and his “Lysistrata.”
• • Now, in New York, the brain-children of playwrights are granted much more leniency than in Los Angeles.
• • A great many plays that would have our local crime-crushers on the stage after the first act, have gone on to Olympian heights in New York. So Miss West’s “Pleasure Man” must have been a monumental drama, indeed, to have drawn the fire of the easy-going Gaels of Gotham. It was natural, therefore, that the delectable Mae was eagerly sought out by newspaper reporters, Harvard psychology students, and less successful playcrafters.
• • “How,” they wanted to know, “do you do it? Why the oldest inhabitants of Manhattan can’t remember the last time a play was closed.”
• • Miss West blushed, blew her nose, and answered graciously.
• • “I don’t really write plays,” she says. “I just make them up out of my head.
• • “I have an idea, and I work it out from scene to scene as the players are rehearsing.
• • “You see, most of my characters are, well – – very human – – and I find it helps to have real people before my very eyes.”
• • Of Mae, it has, in all truth, been said that “When the curtain rolls up on one of her plays, you know you’re going to see a show.”
• • Source: The Los Angeles Record — 13 June 1932 [errors and all]
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: Granada

MAE WEST "The Baby Vamp" is a new hot spot in Granada, Spain.  
• • Located on Centro Comercial Neptuno, the club has two rooms besides their Mae West "The Baby Vamp" Coffee Theatre, where stand-up comics entertain in an American-style playhouse; bar-flies can bend an elbow in Molly Malone's Sport Tavern or tango over to the Bribon de la Havana, where folks can groove to "ritmos latinos" and enjoy the Cuban atmosphere. 
• • The colorful web site (focused on Mae's reputation, biography, and witticisms) is engaging.
 • • Come up and see them – – and it helps if you read Spanish – – www.MaeWestGranada.com 
• • Traes una pistola en el bolsillo o solo estas feliz de verme?
• • http://maewest.blogspot.com/2007/05/mae-west-granada.html

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Mae West: Eat Me

Word comes that a MAE WEST sandwich is being served in the heart of Texas.
• • Café at the Gardens is an eatery positioned in a charming setting of live plants. Nearby, you'll see a fountain and a pond with imported goldfish. Located within a nursery, Alldredge Gardens, the café serves luncheons and suppers.
• • The colorful Mae West sandwich has grilled zucchini, yellow squash, red peppers, and a breaded chicken breast. Served on grilled focaccia, it is garnished with a southwestern-style mayonnaise. [Focaccia, baked in the hearth, is an Italian flat bread topped with spices and other products.]
• • Alldredge Gardens is here: 3300 Fairgrounds Road, Midland, Texas.
• • Café at the Gardens: T. 432-687-3751.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: Post Me

MAE WEST on a postage stamp? While many Americans are in the Post Office today, buying two-cent stamps because the rates have increased, the Mae West Blog is fondly recalling the musical "Let 'Em Eat Cake" [book by George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind; music and lyrics by George and Ira Gershwin] – – why? – – because one character yearns to put Mae West in the mail.
• • During ACT II, SCENE 1, here's what happens:
• • The White House has become the Blue House. Even the portraits on the walls now wear blue shirts. The company sings about the new regime ("Opening: Act II"). Wintergreen ordains that there should be a new Mickey Mouse every day, not once a month. He also orders Mae West to replace George Washington on the postage stamp.
• • This musical previewed on Broadway 21 October 1933 – – not far away from Election Day – – and played 90 performances at the Imperial Theatre [249 West 45th Street, NYC 10036]. "Let 'Em Eat Cake" closed on 6 January 1934.
• • Do you agree that the lady should be a stamp? Write a letter!
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Mae West: Champagne Til

Since it's Mother's Day, it's apt to mention that Mae West really adored her German-born mother Matilda [Dilker] West, whom Mae's father had nicknamed "Champagne Til."
• • Here they are in April 1927, as Mae leaves the women's workhouse, the female prison on Welfare Island.
• • Dedicating her autobiography, "Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It," Mae West wrote: "In loving memory of my mother, without whom I might have been somebody else."
• • In January 1930, Mae purchased a marble mausoleum for her beloved late mother in Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. In 1980, Mae was interred there with the West family.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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Mae West: Andre Penachio

Lifelong MAE WEST friend and man-of-the-cloth Andre Penachio [18 September 1926 — 1 April 1999] campaigned vigorously in 1997 and 1998 to have the actress honored with a postage stamp. 
• • In 1995, the U.S. Postal Service launched a popular series — — "Legends of Hollywood" — — and devoted the first postage stamp to the late Marilyn Monroe. Other Tinseltown luminaries soon followed, for example, comedienne Lucille Ball and Cary Grant, Mae West's co-star.
 • • "Mae West deserves to be commemorated on a stamp," said Bishop Penachio. The Italian American New Yorker first met the movie queen during World War II. 
• • Bishop Andre Penachio officiated at Mae West's burial at Cypress Hills Abbey — — in Brooklyn, New York in 1980. 
• • Until his retirement, Bishop Andre Penachio had been attached to the St. Thomas Liberal Catholic Church [147 West 144th Street, New York, NY 10030; 212-283-9566].
• • Do you agree that the lady should be a stamp? Write a letter!
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/

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Mae West: A Stamp Vamp

Help get MAE WEST commemorated on a U.S. postage stamp.
• • Here's a sample letter and here is where you should write:
• • To: Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee
• • c/o Stamp Development; U S Postal Service
• • 1735 North Lynn St [Rm 5013]; Arlington VA 22209-6432.
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• • Dear Chairman - Citizens Stamp Advisory Committee:
• • Please issue a US postal stamp commemorating MAE WEST, the former Broadway star and Hollywood icon who died in 1980.
• • Comedy and entertainment are hallmarks of the popular culture of the United States of America. The U.S. Postal Department has befittingly honored screen legends Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, Lucille Ball, James Cagney, Alfred Hitchcock, and Humphrey Bogart by issuing commemorative stamps depicting these adults.
• • However, none of these individuals wrote their own plays. MAE WEST wrote "Diamond Lil" and many other plays that were staged on Broadway.
• • None of these individuals wrote their own movie dialogue. MAE WEST wrote all of her own dialogue for most of the nine films she appeared in.
• • None of these individuals can match MAE WEST when it comes to numerous original quotes. Her witty sayings are often quoted in books and newspaper articles to this day.
• • Please approve the issuance of a US postal stamp commemorating a legendary American talent MAE WEST (1893 - 1980).
• • Source of this letter: The Mae West Blog http://MaeWest.blogspot.com
• • • • The Stamp Selection Process • • • •
• • Ideas for stamp subjects that meet CSAC criteria may be addressed to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee; Stamp Development; US Postal Service; 1735 North Lynn St Rm 5013; Arlington VA 22209-6432.
• • The Committee only reads hard-copy letters. No faxes or emails.
• • Subjects should be submitted at least three years in advance of the proposed date of issue to allow sufficient time for consideration and for design and production, if the subject is approved.
• • Submit stamp proposals in writing to the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee. This allows everyone the same opportunity to suggest a new stamp subject. All proposals are reviewed by the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee regardless of how they are submitted, i.e., stamped cards, letters or petitions.
• • After a proposal is determined not to violate criteria set by CSAC, research is done on the proposed stamp subject. Each new proposed subject is listed on the CSAC's agenda for its next meeting. The CSAC considers all new proposals and takes one of two actions: it may reject the new proposal or it may set it aside for consideration for future issuance. If set aside for consideration, the subject remains "under consideration" in a file maintained for the Committee.
• • An "I Love Lucy" stamp appeared in the Postal Service's "Celebrate the Century" series. A new Lucille Ball stamp [released in 2001] is the seventh in a "Legends of Hollywood" series. Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Audrey Hepburn, Cary Grant, James Cagney, Alfred Hitchcock, and Humphrey Bogart are among other Hollywood icons who have been featured.
• • Actor Karl Malden is a long-time member of the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee, which helps choose stamp subjects and designs.
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• • As of March 2001, these are the Committee's Stamp Subject Selection Criteria:
• • It is a general policy that U.S. postage stamps and stationery primarily will feature American or American-related subjects.
• • No living person shall be honored by portrayal on U.S. postage.
• • Commemorative stamps or postal stationery items honoring individuals usually will be issued on or in conjunction with significant anniversaries of their birth, but no postal item will be issued sooner than ten years after the individual's death. The only exception to the ten-year rule is the issuance of stamps honoring deceased U.S. presidents. They may be honored with a memorial stamp on the first birth anniversary following death.
• • Events of historical significance shall be considered for commemoration only on anniversaries in multiples of 50 years.
• • No stamp shall be considered for issuance if one treating the same subject has been issued in the past 50 years. The only exceptions to this rule are traditional themes such as national symbols and holidays.
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