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Mischa Auer

Bill Stern Sports Newsreel · August 30, 1946 · 14 min · 2,452 words

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Three four thousand eight E.C.E. Four-gate, presenters, and... With a corrugate shaped green sports newsrail. Phil, turn the corrugate, three-man is on the air. Phil, turn the corrugate, three-man is on the air. Take his advice and you'll look in.

You'll get a shave that's moving. Then you'll be a corrugate brushless band. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Phil, turn, bringing in the 356 edition of the corrugate shaped green sports newsrail. These are in strange and fantastic stories.

Some legends others mirror hearsay. But also interesting, we'd like to pass them along to you. Our guests tonight in person is the famous movie comedian, But before we bring you, Mr. Hour, let's begin with real one, portrait of a penny.

This is the portrait of a penny. Or should I say, this is the story of a professional gambler. His name was Colonel Bradley, and this story is largely legendary because he was a legendary figure.

Colonel Bradley only died a week ago, and yet on the day that he died, this legend was born. When Colonel Bradley was but a little boy, one day by accident, reputedly he swallowed a penny.

His parents were frantic, but a doctor by means of an operation removed that penny from the youngster's stomach. After the operation was over, the doctor gave that penny back to the youngster, and that boy was never to be without that penny again for many years. Years during which this youngster grew up to become the famous Colonel Bradley, America's most famous gambler. Yet Colonel Bradley was

never without that penny that he had once swallowed. He'd flip that penny with anyone for any amount of money, and he once did flip this penny with Mr. E. T. Stokesberry of Philadelphia for $1 million. After Colonel Bradley had won that million dollars by flipping his lucky penny, the penny he'd once swallowed nothing could get that penny

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