Monday, Apr. 26, 1999
Philately
By David Bjerklie, Tam Gray, Daniel Levy, Lina Lofaro, Michele Orecklin, David Spitz, Flora Tartakovsky and Chris Taylor
NATURAL SELECTION The U.S. Postal Service recently announced that video games and the fall of the Berlin Wall top the list of subjects Americans want on stamps representing the 1980s. Next month people will vote on '90s stamps. We asked ninetysomethings and nine-and-unders for their input. Can you guess who chose what?
Answers: Bob Hope: Men and women of Desert Storm; Philip Johnson: Frank Gehry; Edward Teller: The fall of communism in the U.S.S.R.; Hallie Eisenberg: Beanie Babies; Jonathan Lipnicki: Mark McGwire; Madylin Sweeten: Rosie O'Donnell