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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/102666| Title: | Philatelic fury |
| Authors: | Time Magazine |
| Keywords: | Postage stamps -- United States Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- On postage stamps Postage stamps -- Anecdotes |
| Issue Date: | 1967 |
| Publisher: | Malta Philatelic Society |
| Citation: | Time Magazine (1967). Philatelic fury. The Philatelic Society of Malta magazine, 1(3), 12-13. |
| Abstract: | Philately may seem a gentle advocation, but Postmaster Larry O'Brien knows better. After he approved a 5 cent stamp to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Henry David Thoreau's birth, furious collectors complained that the Post Office Department was making the Walden Panderer look like a thug, a Communist, a hippie, or "a beatnik suffering from withdrawal symptoms". One fan even threatened civil disobedience. "If you bring a blown-up poster of this hideous thing into Concord, Mass.," he wrote, "you'd better send a company of the National Guard". [excerpt] |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/102666 |
| Appears in Collections: | JMPS - 1967 - 1(3) |
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