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Bill Sterns Sports Newsreel · December 7, 1945 · 14 min · 2,460 words
The transcript of “Joe Lewis”, an episode of Bill Sterns Sports Newsreel first broadcast December 7, 1945. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). All Mixed Up plays Bill Sterns Sports Newsreel free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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C-4-L-D-A-T-T-D, Colgate, pretend Bill's time! With a Colgate-shaped green sports news reel. He'll turn the Colgate-A-T-P-Man is on the air. He'll turn the Colgate-A-T-P-Man with stories rare. Take his advice and you'll look in, you'll get a shave that's moving clean.
You'll be a Colgate-crush-less man. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is Bill Stern bringing you the 318th edition of the Colgate-Sports news reel. I guess tonight is the heavyweight champion of the world, Joe Lewis.
But first, real one, portrait of luck. I'm sure you've all heard stories of lucky people who've won fortunes on sweepstakes tickets. Do you ever wonder what happened to those persons after they had won those fortunes?
Let's recall some of the lucky sweepstakes winners tonight and see what did happen to them. Quite a few years ago, out in Indiana, they lived a poor, obscure working man named Arthur Court. Like so many poor people, Arthur Court dreamed of some day having riches.
One day Arthur Court bought a ticket on the Irish sweepstakes. And even though the odds were over a million to one against him, Arthur Court's ticket on the Irish sweepstakes was a winning ticket. And he won $89,000.
Now Arthur Court was no longer poor. He'd won a fortune. Yet inside of one year Arthur Court had lost every set of that fortune and he was in jail, unable to pay his bail. other sweet steak winners with even stranger stories for just about this same time in London England, they lived a poor working man named Robert Whittaker.
Now Robert Whittaker never wanted to be rich, but he did want enough money to get married on for he was desperately in love with a beautiful girl. But there never seemed to be quite enough money for them to get married on. Until one day Robert Whittaker bought a ticket on the Calcutta Sweepstakes, a ticket that proved to be the
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