WASHINGTON - A face that will tease you and please you and perhaps unease you is coming to the post office next year; it's those Bette Davis eyes.
On the 100th anniversary of her birth, the great actress will be honored with a commemorative stamp, the 14th in the Legends of Hollywood series.
A 10-time Academy Award nominee, Davis won twice, for her roles in "Dangerous" (1935) and "Jezebel" (1938).
And speaking of centennials, the same year Davis was born, actor Jack Norworth wrote "Take Me Out to the Ball Game," the song still famed in the seventh inning stretch. Postal officials hope buyers will root, root, root for a stamp based on a 19th-century baseball card recalling that special melody next year.
Also in 2008, the Postal Service will launch a multiyear Flags of Our Nation series, a 60-stamp set scheduled to include the Stars and Stripes as well as the flags of each state.
Among the other new postage stamps scheduled for next year:
Charles W. Chesnutt will be honored with the 31st stamp in the Black Heritage series. He was a pioneering writer recognized today as a major innovator among literary realists who probed the color line in American life.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Yearling" and her memoir "Cross Creek."
Astronomer Edwin Hubble, whose meticulous studies of spiral nebulae proved the existence of galaxies other than our own Milky Way.
Chemist Linus Pauling, who determined the nature of the chemical bond linking atoms into molecules and did pioneering work on proteins.
American journalists Martha Gellhorn, who covered the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and the Vietnam War in a long career that broke new ground for women, and John Hersey, whose most famous work, "Hiroshima," describes what happened when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city.
Frank Sinatra, an Oscar- and Grammy-winning singer and actor.
Charles and Ray Eames, who made contributions to architecture, furniture design, manufacturing, and photographic arts. Among many other things the husband and wife team designed is the stackable molded fiberglass chair.
