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Dinah Shore

Bill Sterns Sports Newsreel · August 9, 1946 · 14 min · 2,602 words

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The Colgate Shave Cream Sports News Rail. The Colgate Shave Cream Man is on the air. The Colgate Shave Cream Man with storey's brand. Pick his advice and you'll look in, you'll get a shade that's smooth and clean.

You'll be a Colgate price less than... Evening, ladies and gentlemen, this is Bill Stern, bringing you the 353rd edition of the Colgate Shave Cream Sports News Rail, featuring strings and fantastic stories. Some legends, others may or may not say.

But also interesting, we'd like to pass them along to you. Our guest tonight in person is one of America's most famous singing stars, Dinishor. But before we bring you Dinishor, let's begin with Real One.

Profile of sports switches. One of the greatest sports stories of all time is the amazing story of Ellsworth Vines. Ellsworth Vines was America's national tennis champion back in 1931. Anyone the tennis championship of the United States again in 1932.

And then at the very height of his fame. Even though he was the tennis champion of the United States, Ellsworth Vines stopped playing tennis and took up golf. Last week in Chicago, at America's biggest golf tournament, this same Ellsworth Vines, who was once America's tennis champion, came within one stroke of winning America's biggest golf tournament.

Today, Ellsworth Vines is considered one of the greatest golf players in the world. Just as 15 years ago, he was the greatest tennis player in the world. But speaking of great champions who have switched from one sport to another, let me tell you the amazing story of Frank White.

When Frank White was 60 years old, he won the gold championship of the State of Utah. That was 10 years ago. The years passed by after that, and he was forgotten. Until recently, Frank White came back to the sport headlines.

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