Above the central portrait, each stamp featured a picture of a lamp that the U.S. Post Office Department identified as the "Lamp of Knowledge" but that I thought of as Aladdin's lamp because of the boy in the Arabian Nights with the magic lamp and the ring and the two genies who give him whatever he asks for.

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Excerpted from "Aladdin's Lamp" by John Freely.

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It had been engineered that Aladdin's golden lamp was placed under my seat so that I would go up on the stage at the end of the show and meet the stars, including Larry Grayson, and be presented with a prize.

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