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  • Poster Postcards Part VIIII Tre Conti

    Poster Postcards Part VIII

    I Tre Conti

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    One of the most fascinating features of posters is how they communicate a great deal of information in very few words. The featured card for this episode of In A Few Words is to be a true test of this principle of communications. The card has only three words on it, repeated in translation to six because…

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Sidney Russell, a kid from Passaic, New Jersey and Carl Sigman, a law school graduate from Brooklyn, wrote a lively tune in 1947 called, “Ballerina.” Vaughn Monroe popularized it the same year. As best we can, Postcard History has used postcards to illustrate the emotion of dance, so as Monroe sang, “Dance Ballerina, Dance!”

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