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Elizabeth Scott

Bill Sterns Sports Newsreel · October 11, 1946 · 14 min · 2,486 words

The transcript of “Elizabeth Scott”, an episode of Bill Sterns Sports Newsreel first broadcast October 11, 1946. 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-1-L-T-H-E, C-O-Gate Presents For Send With the C-O-Gate Shave Cream Sports Newsreel Bill's turned to C-O-Gate Shave C-Mannons on The air Bill's turned to C-O-Gate Shave C-Mannons' door is wrapped Take his advice and you'll look clean to their discharge The smooth and clean to be a C-O-Gate Brussless fan Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is Bill Stern speaking from the City of Chicago

We're in the City of Chicago tonight, en route to broadcast tomorrow's Michigan Army football game But right now, we're ready to bring you from Chicago The 360-second edition of the Colgate Shave Cream Sports Newsreel, featuring strange and fantastic stories, some that are legends others mere hearsay, but also interesting that we'd like to pass them along to you.

Our guest tonight is the lovely Hollywood movie star, Liz Butt Scott. But before we bring you Liz Butt Scott in person, let's begin with real one. Profile of October the 11th. Today is October the 11th, and this is a story that reached its climax 87 years ago tonight.

Britt was on October the 11th of 1859, that one of the most interesting of all sports stories came to a close. But let me begin this story as it was told to me. For this is the story of a youngster named John.

John was born in Massachusetts. And as a youngster, he learned to swim. In fact, he learned to swim so well that at the age of 13, John entered the Massachusetts Freestyle Swimming Championships. And John might have won that day if, if right in the middle of the race, John hadn't been seized with a violent attack of cramps.

John struggled in the water, gasping for breath, when suddenly, suddenly he felt a strong pair of arms grab him and pull him to safety. After John had recovered, he was amazed to find out that the man who had saved him, the man was a former slave, a colored man, who had risked his own life to save John's.

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