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Alan Jones

Bill Stern Sports Newsreel · June 22, 1945 · 13 min · 2,488 words

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The following program is being short-weaved overseas by the Armed Forces Radio Service. C4LGKTT, Colgate presents Bill Stern. With the Colgate Shave Cream Sports Newsreel. Bill Stern, the Colgate Shave Cream Man is on the air.

Bill Stern, the Colgate Shave Cream Man with storage 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 294th edition of the Colgate Shave Cream Sports Newsreel. I guess tonight is the famous singing star of the screen Alan Jones, but first, real one, profile of a soccer player.

This is the story of one of the greatest soccer players of all time. His name was John Hurd, and he lived in New Zealand. In fact, John Hurd was such a great soccer player that in 1885, thanks to his brilliant play, his team qualified to play for the championship of New Zealand.

And there was great interest to see whether John Hurd could lead his team to the national title. One hour before that game was to begin, John Hurd suddenly announced he would not play. The sporting world was amazed.

Why should he suddenly quit just before the most important game of his career? And then the story came out. John Hurd was a sick man with an incurable skin disease, and the doctors had forbidden him to play.

Well, that ended the soccer career of John Hurd, but shortly afterwards, his name again appeared in the newspapers. For one day he announced that he had a remedy for his illness, but that his remedy was a secret. However, John Heard agreed to share his secret remedy with any other men who had this same illness, if they would agree to set sail with him upon an ocean

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