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403 - Frank Sinatra Subs

Bill Sterns Sports Newsreel · August 1, 1947 · 14 min · 2,752 words

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C-O-L-T-A-T-E. Colgate presents the Bill Stern Show starring Frank Sinatra. Bill Stern and Colgate, Jay Perman, is far away. This week is his vacation time to rest and play. And for tonight, while he's away 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 Shave 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 stearns popular book entitled

my favorite sports stories so here we go frank snotra pinch hitting for bill stearn with sports stories from bills book ladies and gentlemen frank snot good evening ladies and gentlemen you know listening to bill stoney trite and i've 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 hardly enough this didn't begin as a story of a swimmer because in the beginning charles zimmy was just a young fellow who wanted more than anything else in the world to become a great athlete charles zimmy was rugged and healthy but unfortunately was clumsy in sports

he was so clumsy on the baseball diamond 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 zimmy it seemed wasn't destined to become a great athlete and then one day it happened charles zimmy was injured

seriously injured in an accident for a time doctors despair to saving his life but medical skill one out and charles and he pulled through and now more than ever he vowed he would become a great athlete even though his friends continue to believe that he just wasn't cut out to make a name for himself in sports

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