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550 - Ted Williams

Bill Sterns Sports Newsreel · May 19, 1950 · 14 min · 2,345 words

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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is Bill Stern with the Colgate Shave Cream Sports News Rail. Colgate Shave Cream Man Ghost Turn is on the air. Colgate Shave Cream Man Ghost Turn with stories rare.

So nothing feels advice and you'll look so keen. You'll have a face that's both smooth and clean. Colgate Shave Cream Man Ghost Turn! The 550th edition of the Colgate Shave Cream Sports News Rail, Featuring America's most famous collector of yarns and stories, some legend, some hearsay, but also interesting that we'd like to pass them along to you.

And to do this, here's Radio's number one sports reporter, Bill Stearns. Good evening, our guest tonight is the star of the Boston Red Sox, Ted Williams, but first here is real one. Portrait of an ocean crossing.

Here in New York City we're used to seeing mighty ocean liners. We're used to watching these great ships as they come and go, flying their way across the Atlantic Ocean. Usually before each sailing of these huge ocean liners, gay parties are held when the friends of those who are sailing come down to the docks to see them off.

It was at one of these typical bomb-boy eyes parties, many years ago that one of the strangest sports stories of all time first began. For at that time a huge ocean liner was sailing from Australia bound for England all over the ship gave parties were in progress and as the big ship slowly pulled out the sea men and women waved proud farewells the ship's band

was playing hail hail again so here and the decks were crowded with passengers shouting their final farewell. Soon the big ship was well out to sea, and as night settled down, the heavy throb of the engines became almost monotonous. As the days passed by, the passengers played shuffleboarder, drowsed in deck chairs under the sun, as the big ship

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