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Byline: Dominic Sama
As a youth, Henry Mancini learned from his music-loving father to play the flute and piccolo. But those gave way to the piano, the instrument that launched Mancini on a stellar career as a composer and scorer for films and television.
The U.S. Postal Service is honoring that career with a 37-cent commemorative that will be issued April 13.
Mancini's nearly 100 film credits included "Breakfast at Tiffany's," "The Days of Wine and Roses" and the "Pink Panther" series. The traipsing panther is squeezed in the lower left corner of the stamp design, with Mancini directing.
He also was hugely successful in television, ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Stamp-collecting news and notes.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)