US POSTAL SERVICE: Novelist who glorified individual achievement receives lofty tribute.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-16 April 1999-US POSTAL SERVICE: Novelist who glorified individual achievement receives lofty tribute (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:140499 * Ayn Rand Commemorative Stamp Issued in City She Loved Novelist Ayn Rand, whose love for New York and America reached levels as high as the greatest skyscrapers, becomes the 16th honoree in the U.S.

Postal Service's American Literary Arts series when a new commemorative stamp is issued April 22 in New York City. Many years after her arrival in the United States in 1926 at the age of 21, Ayn Rand recounted that when she saw the Manhattan skyline for the first time, she was moved to tears. She once described this feeling when recounting how she came to write one of her best known novels, The...