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Constance Bennett

Bill Stern Sports Newsreel · March 17, 1944 · 13 min · 2,590 words

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C-F-L-G-A-T-E-E-C-G. Colgate presents Bill Stern. With a Colgate, Sports Newsreel. Bill Stern, the Colgate, Shave, Pre-Man is on the air. Bill Stern, the Colgate, Shave, Pre-Man with stories there. 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 another Colgate, Sports Newsreel. Our guest tonight is the lovely Hollywood movie star, Miss Constance Planet.

But first, real one. Portrait. How about failure? This is the story of a boy who wanted to be a great athlete. His name was Charles Zimme. Ever since he could remember, little Charles Zimme had loved sports.

As the years passed, Charles Zimme tried one sport after another, but he failed at all of them until one day he took up wrestling, and he was pretty good at that, too. Only he wasn't quite good enough.

Charles realized he'd never make a great wrestler, and so he gave this sport up. But he was all a more determined to someday find some sport, in which he could make a a great name for himself. One day Charles Zimme tried sailing. He'd always liked the water, and if there was one thing he thought he could do it was to sail a boat. Charles was

no better than this than he was in other sports. In fact, one day on a sailboat, race his boat tipped over, and Charles had a swim to shore. But that gave Charles an idea. Why not try the sport of swimming? He liked to swim, and what's more, he was pretty good at it. And

so it was that Charles Zimme dropped all other sports, decided to concentrate on becoming a great swimmer. As the years passed by, Charles swam more and more often. He was determined that before he was too old, he'd at least set one American swimming record. People kitted Charles about his ambition. They laughed at him behind his back, but one day, strange as

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