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Lena Horne

Bill Stern Sports Newsreel · March 30, 1945 · 14 min · 2,514 words

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The following program is being short-waved overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. C-O-L-G-A-T-E, Colgate presents Bill Stern. We're the Colgate Sports News Rail. Bill Stern, the Colgate Shake Creme Man is on the air. Bill Stern, the Colgate Shake Creme Man with stories rare.

Take his advice and you'll look in, you'll get a shave that's smooth and clean. You'll be a Colgate Brushless fan. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is Bill Stern bringing you the 283rd edition of the Colgate Sports News Rail.

This news reel were just back from a transcontinental tour of the Army camps. And I guess tonight is the famous Hollywood movie star Miss Lena Horne, but first, real one, profile of a memory. Our mind wanders back 14 years.

14 years ago tomorrow night to March 31, 1931, when a burning airship tumbled from the skies into a deserted pasture in Kansas. And soon, telegraph wires carried the tragic news that one of the passengers killed was the great Newt Rottney.

14 years is a long time to remember things in the world of sport. So let me remind you, whose memory runs short, that Newt Rottney was the heart and soul of Notre Dame's victory song.

Here, cheer for all Notre Dame, wake up! When Rottney was the coach of Notre Dame, he molded gridiron team's soul mighty they grew into a myth. Who'll ever forget his masterpiece, the invincible team of the famous four horsemen.

It was a team that roamed all over the country. cold, heat, snow, and sleet, it didn't matter. But the boys were playing Rockney football, and Rockney football was winning football. Notre Dame sang that victory song, but Rockney made a come true.

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