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Kate Smith gets a postage stamp -- God bless America

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A round of applause for the United States Postal Service, which Wednesday issued a stamp honoring the late singer Kate Smith, best known for her rendition of a little Irving Berlin tune, ‘God Bless America,’ which she first sang in 1938 and which has a reputation as America’s unofficial national anthem.

The stamp was unveiled with the help of former members of the NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers, for whom Smith’s signature song has been a good luck charm since the team first spun it before a game in 1969.

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(‘Stamps,’ for you younger folks, are costly little bits of paper that are affixed to larger bits of paper to indicate that the larger paper product’s passage from one real-life address to another has been paid for.)

No, she’s not exactly gracing the cover of today’s tabloids -- probably wasn’t on the tabloids back in her day either, though please correct me if I’m wrong. There’s no scandal, no lawsuit, no tawdry kerfuffle of any sort.

She’s Kate-flippin’-Smith -- and now, like Katharine Hepburn just before her, she is on a stamp.

You should know that.

-- Christie D’Zurilla


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