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Stretch the Basketball Star

Our Miss Brooks · February 13, 1949 · 29 min · 4,727 words

The transcript of “Stretch the Basketball Star”, an episode of Our Miss Brooks first broadcast February 13, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Our Miss Brooks plays Our Miss Brooks free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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I'm Olive Soph, your beauty hope and lustre cream shampoo for soft glamorous, caressable hair bring you our Miss Brooke starring Eve Arden. So, teaches English at Madison High School is as fond of sports as most of us, but somehow basketball was never one of her favorites.

It isn't that I don't like basketball, I just hate it. This aversion started when I was refereeing a game in Teacher's College, And in the excitement, I swallowed the whistle. Of course it was only a small whistle, but it gets pretty embarrassing when every time you hiccup traffic stops.

Anyway, last Wednesday morning, Mrs. Davis, my landlady, woke me a full hour earlier than usual. She told me that Walter Denton, the manager of the basketball team, was waiting to see me in the living room.

If I could have had one free throw, I'd have thrown him out and gone back to sleep. But Mrs. Davis wouldn't let me. Come on now, Connie. The boy seems very concerned about something. You've got to see him.

All right, Mrs. Davis, where's my robe? I sent it out to the laundry, Connie. Here I brought you on a mind wear. This was part of my true soul. I took it along on my honeymoon.

We had a wonderful honeymoon. Just you and the bathrobe? What? No, my husband was along. Evans, didn't people talk? He just loved this robe. It's beautiful material, isn't it? Lovely. What is it exactly, Mrs. Davis?

Ostrich feathers over seersucker? No, dear, it's satin, and that big feather boy is worn around the neck. You're sleeping on. There! Now you throw this boa around your neck. So, how do you like it, Pani?

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