SHORT TAKES : Malden Adds Stamp to Panel

Actor Karl Malden is joining the panel that recommends subjects for new U.S. postage stamps, the U.S. Postal Service announced today.

Malden, president of the academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, is one of five new members chosen for the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee.

The group screens the nearly 30,000 letters received annually suggesting stamp subjects and makes recommendations to the postmaster general.

In addition to Malden, new committee members are David Lewis Eynon, executive vice president of Amichetti, Lewis & Associates, Bryn Mawr, Pa.; Bernard Henning Sr., attorney, Chicago; Stephen T. McLin, president, American First Financial Corp., San Francisco, and Robert H. Power, general partner, Nut Tree Restaurant, Nut Tree, Calif.