Frank Sinatra

Coolgate presents the Bill Stern Show starring Frank Sinatra. Go turn the Coolgate chain, famous faraway. This week is education time to rest and play, and for tonight, what is the way to take his place?

We're glad to say that Frank Sinatra will be here. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Bill Stern is away on his vacation. But in his place tonight, Colgate shaves cream is proud to present Frank Sinatra, and in order to keep this show just like Bill Stern's regular program, tonight Frank Sinatra will tell sports stories

that are taken from Bill Stern's popular book entitled, My Favorite Sport Stories. So here we go, Frank Sinatra, pinch hitting for Bill Stern with sport stories from Bill's book. Ladies and gentlemen, Frank Sinatra. Good evening ladies and gentlemen.

You know, listening to Bill Stone each Friday night, I heard him tell some strange stories, but none stranger than the one I'm about to tell now. This is a swimming story. It's the story of Charles Zimme.

But oddly enough, this didn't begin as a story of a swimmer, because in the beginning Charles Zimme was just a young fellow who wanted more than anything else in the world to become a great athlete. Charles Zimme was rugged and healthy but unfortunately was clumsy in sports. He was so clumsy on the baseball diamond that he became the laughing

stock of all other youngsters when he tried to play ball. It was the same on the football field and on the basketball court. Charles Zimme had seemed wasn't destined to become a great athlete and then one day it happened. Charles Zimme was injured, seriously injured in an accident. For a time, doctors despaired of saving his life, but medical skill won out