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Ellery Queen

Bill Stern Sports Newsreel · August 18, 1944 · 14 min · 2,607 words

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G4PELP, G-A-T-E, Colgate presents Bill Stern. With the Colgate Sports Newsreel. He'll Stern the Colgate, shape your man is on the air. He'll Stern the Colgate, shape your man with stories fair. Take his advice and you'll look in, you'll get a shade that's moving clean.

You'll be a Colgate-trashless fan. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is Bill Stern with a 250 second edition of the Colgate Sports Newsreel. Our guest tonight is the most famous detective in the world, Ellery Queen.

But first, real one, profile of a guy named Joe. This is the story of a guy named Joe. Joe from Georgia was his nickname because you see Joe was from Georgia. He was born in Georgia back in 1879.

Joe was a healthy Husky youngster who by the time he was 12 years old, had won the Junior Wrestling Championship of his little Georgia town. By the time Joe was 16, he'd won the Wrestling Championship of all Georgia.

But Joe was growing up now. And since his mother wanted him to become a priest, he finally left his Georgia home to go to a larger city to study for the priesthood. For five years, Joe studied to be a priest.

But in his fifth year, Joe became the victim of a dreaded disease, for seven long months he lay between life and death. At last, however, he was well enough to leave his bed. But the disease had left its mark on him, for Joe's left arm was paralyzed.

After his illness, Joe returned to school, but somehow it just wasn't the same. Where before he loved sports now because of his healthy, out of stay on the sidelines, and it hurt him. For he'd always prided himself on his athletic ability.

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