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George Jessel

Bill Stern Sports Newsreel · July 4, 1947 · 14 min · 2,591 words

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With the Colgate Save Cream Sports Newsreel. They'll turn the Colgate Save Commanders on the air. They'll turn the Colgate Save Commanders to Hori's van. Take his advice and you'll look in. You'll get a shaded smoothen clean.

You'll be a Colgate brushless fan. Good evening ladies and gentlemen. This is Bill Stern broadcasting from the Windy City of Chicago and Farmer Chicago bringing you the 396th edition of the Colgate Save Cream Sports Newsreel.

Our guest tonight is the famous star, George Jessle. But before we bring you George Jessle in, person here is... is real on, part of the Fourth of July. Since today is the Fourth of July, our whole program tonight is devoted to Fourth of July stories.

And even though our first story happened on the Fourth of July many years ago, I think you'll find it interesting on this Fourth of July, for it's a strange story with a curious ending. 150 years ago, the biggest racetrack outside of New York City was located in Long Island, was just outside of New York.

Here the young men used to meet and place bets on horses. And here it was that a young man named John first met another young man named Tom. These two, John and Tom, became friendly.

And they discovered that they were rivals, but they were both in the same profession. All their profession had nothing to do with horse racing. In fact their profession was politics. And they both did well in politics too, so well that both John and Tom made history.

John's full name was John Adams and he became the second president of the United States. While John's friend Tom was Thomas Jefferson who became the third president of the United States. And so history records that are second and third presidents of the United States. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson began their rivalry at a racetrack outside of New York City. But you know neither John Adams nor

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