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Hello friends and thank you for
supporting this day in Jack Benny I'm
John Henderson today Jack Benny and then
Rochester are guests on Bill Stern's
Sports newsreel how do you do ladies and
gentlemen this is Bill Stern with
up-to-date news on the national picture
in the World of Sports
today an ever-growing enthusiasm for
Sports in general is reaching an
all-time high
surveys show that more than ever before
people are playing tennis and golf
going horseback riding trap and skeet
shooting
swimming
playing badminton flying hunting
skating in fact participating in all of
the Recreational Sports
now it's supposed to be a sports show
but it's only very Loosely connected to
sports and each episode had a special
guest in this case Jack Benny from the
December 28 1945 episode and Eddie
Rochester Anderson from the June 7 1946
episode in it they mentioned the episode
where Jack Benny has Joe Lewis the boxer
as a special guest
just a minute I come in to be a comedian
I want to tell a joke why don't you
leave the comedy to me after all it took
me 25 years to become a comedian it's
the same as fighting how long did it
take you to become a champion uh 10
seconds
oh yeah yeah
and they talk about Rochester's
racehorse Rochester if you're calling
about getting time off to go to the
Kentucky Derby the answer is no oh I
forgot all about the Derby that was just
a silly whim of mine good but I was
wondering boss my sister but there he is
getting married and if it's all right
with you I'd like to attend the ceremony
getting married eh where does your
sister live Louisville
see I wonder if Rochester's horse has
got a chance well it's not a sure thing
but who knows about horse races yeah who
knows the show's sort of a precursor to
Paul Harvey where it's an interesting
story with a bit of a Twist at the end
and if you don't know Paul Harvey stay
tuned after the episode for a little
bonus Bill Stern wasn't too worried
about whether the stories were true or
not some stories were based on fact some
were exaggerated and others were what
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tonight we're broadcasting from
Hollywood and he's one of the most
famous stars in Hollywood his radio
program on Sunday evenings is one of
America's most famous radio shows and
here he is in person Jack Benny hello
again this is Jack many talking and Bill
I want to thank you for inviting me on
your program well you're welcome Jack
but why did you have to pick out I mean
why did you want to be on my program
well it was a natural thing do you see
I've always been very active in sports
you certainly football basket baseball
boxing tennis basketball track all those
things of course as much as I enjoy them
I've had to give them up I'm almost 37
you know now wait a minute Jack I'm 37.
look at me well maybe you didn't take
care of yourself
maybe but getting back to sports if
you've given up all forms of sports Jack
well no no bill not everything there's
still one sport I indulge in quite
frequently really what is it well I like
to stand on the corner of Sunset and
Vine and go
hi Jack that's not bad have you picked
up anything yeah two poodles three Saint
Bernards and a traffic cop but seriously
bill I do swim a little you know I have
a pool in my backyard well in this
weather who hasn't anyway John here a
few days I know you're still interested
in sports because a few weeks ago you
had Joe Lewis on your program uh yes
bill I did have Lewis on my show only
gave me some pointers on boxing yes Joe
told me about that he also mentioned
that you had beautiful muscles well yes
yes I hate to say so but I have come
here Jack let me feel those muscles well
I wish you'd let me know earlier I would
have worn them to the broadcast well
next time I'll call you beforehand You
Know Jack we've been kidding around but
I want you to know that I've talked to a
lot of servicemen who've come back from
overseas they all tell me what a
wonderful job you did entertaining our
troops uh thanks Bill and as we come to
the close of this year the first
peacetime New Year in five years I like
everyone else of course I'm thankful for
the Victory and the peace I'm also
grateful that I was one of those asked
to serve in the field of entertainment
during the war I know the theatrical
world will always be ready but I hope it
won't be necessary again you're so right
Jack Benny but don't go away Jack I want
you back later in this program ladies
and gentlemen that speech by Jack Benny
reminds me that this year is coming to a
close so tonight let's look back and
review the outstanding Sports stories of
this year
remember
memories of stories that made this
year's Sports history let's begin with
the profile of Jack shevny Jack chefny
was one of the greatest football players
to ever play for Notre Dame but after
graduation Jack shevny left Notre Dame
to become the head football coach at the
University of Texas and at Texas Jack
shevny coached a Texas team that beat
his former alma mater Notre Dame they
even gave Jack shevny a gold fountain
pen a gold fountain pen that bore an
inscription an inscription which read
presented to jack chefny a Notre Dame
man who beat Notre Dame when this war
broke out Jack shevny joined the Marines
and as a Marine in this war he gave his
life at Iwo Jima when a Japanese bullet
killed him the end of the story took
place this year aboard the USS Missouri
when the Japanese officials came aboard
to sign the official surrender document
ending this war for just as the Japanese
official was about to sign Japan
surrender someone noticed the fountain
pen that this Japanese official was
using that fountain pen was Jack
chevney's gold fountain pen stolen from
his dead body at Iwo Jima and it's still
bore the inscription to jack shebny a
Notre Dame man who beat Notre Dame
now
one great Sports memory of 1945 but
there were others do you remember the
story we called
the portrait of a boxing team this was
the story of a boxing team a great
boxing team they were Champions except
that they were dirty Fighters they
fought dirty they used foul tactics
anything to win a fight in fact they
became so dirty that in one fight they
killed a man and then they were charged
with murder but on the day that they
were found guilty the judge allowed them
to go free this was because of political
influence for you see this all happened
back in Germany and those dirty prize
Fighters were the first Nazi party
headed by Adolf Hitler
yeah
but there were other great memories of
sports events that reached the climax
this past year for instance do you
remember
the profile of a Frenchman this was the
story of a Frenchman who gave one of the
world's most lavish dinner parties this
huge dinner party cost this Frenchman
over one hundred thousand dollars and
the guest of honor at this Frenchman's
dinner party was a horse a horse named
Avia a great racehorse that this
Frenchman had just bought maybe you'd
like to know who this Frenchman was he
was the former dictator of France Pierre
Laval Pierre Laval who was killed this
past year killed as a traitor to France
and after he was killed they carted his
body away to the burial grounds and the
horse that pulled his body to his grave
was the very same horse for which he'd
once given the world's most expensive
dinner party
laughs
now the memories the memories of this
year's Sports stories are coming back
memories that on this last broadcast of
this year we must remember such as
portrait of a love story this was the
story of a girl named Lisa and a boy
named Joseph they lived in Vienna and
they were very very much in love Joseph
was a soccer player a good soccer player
and Lisa began to go with him to the
soccer games she became the official
scorer of his Viennese soccer team the
years passed after that and Adolf Hitler
came into power it was then that Lisa
was ordered arrested but all they found
on her was a notebook a notebook which
she said was filled with official soccer
scores and because she was the official
soccer scorer the Germans Let Her Go Let
Her Go to bring her notebook back to the
Allies for in that notebook there
weren't really soccer scores no those
Figures were the formula which gave the
United States the atomic bomb
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we've just about finished reviewing the
best sports memories that took place in
this passing year but we must not forget
a story that we call
the profile of a rivalry this was the
story of a rivalry between two men one
was nicknamed Ben the other was
nicknamed Maddie these two were rivals
in skiing and racing in boxing all was
it was Maddie who beat Ben this
infuriated Ben so much that he vowed
that somehow he'd get Maddie and he did
get him but one day Ben caused Maddie to
lose his life for Ben had Matty murdered
however when Matty died Maddie's son
swore that someday he'd avenge his
father's death and this year he did for
he killed Ben just as Ben had killed his
father and so this year saw the end of a
rivalry between these two men a rivalry
that began in sports and ended in the
death for both men maybe you'd like to
know who these two men were Maddie was
the famous Italian socialist leader
Giacomo matiati while Ben Ben was the
dictator of Italy Benito Mussolini it
was Mussolini who murdered matiati only
and turned to be murdered by madiatti's
son
we've reviewed the great Sports memories
of this passing year on this last
program of this year but there's one
more story a story we called
portrait of a sportsman this was the
story of an athlete he played baseball
he played football he wrote horseback he
was a great swimmer he loved Sports and
then then at the very peak of his career
he was struck down he became paralyzed
but he refused to quit and he finally
came back he came back to become the
president of the United States for his
name was Franklin Delano Roosevelt
he didn't become a champion in any sport
yet he was the greatest champion that
Sports have ever had
and this year when he died I couldn't
help remembering a simple inscription
that's over the Arlington military
cemetery where America's war heroes are
buried and I think this inscription
meant for them applies equally well to
him for it says sleep well Soldier
you are not forgotten
profile of this passing year
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again is one of America's most famous
radio Stars Jack Benny a bill I think
with the new year coming there's one
story you forgot and it's a new year
story
it's the story of a youngster named
Robert Burns who came to live with an
elderly man in Scotland
these two became great friends for the
elderly man had once been the bare
knuckle boxing champion of Scotland and
young Robert Burns wanted to be a boxer
but one New Year's Eve the older man was
burned to death in a tragic fire young
Robert Burns was heartbroken over the
loss of his old friend the prize fighter
and with no one left to teach him boxing
Robert Burns gave it up and became a
writer
one of the first things he wrote was a
poem
a poem that's been set to music
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has become the most famous New Year's
Eve poem ever written
and it was written in honor of his old
friend the prize fighter who died on New
Year's Eve
for now you know why Robert Burns wrote
should old acquaintance be forgotten and
ever brought to mind should all the
Queens be for God and days of Old Lang
Syne
thank you Jack Benny and that's the
thrill Mark for tonight
Jack Benny appeared in this program
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ladies and gentlemen this is Bill Stern
bringing the 344th edition of the
Colgate shave cream sports news reel
featuring strange and fantastic stories
some that are legends others mere
hearsay but also interesting we'd like
to pass them along to you our special
guest tonight is the famous comedian
from The Jack Benny show Rochester but
before we introduce Rochester in person
let's begin with real one profile of
Niagara Falls do you ever know that
there was a strange Sports story behind
Niagara Falls a sports story that began
many years ago or many years ago there
lived a great swimmer by the name of
Matthew Webb Matthew Webb was an
Englishman and he was the first man to
ever swim the English Channel and buy
swimming that English Channel Matthew
Webb attracted so much attention that he
Ryan swim the Niagara River at the foot
of Niagara Falls but he did not do it
instead in trying to swim this Whirlpool
that forms the Niagara River Matthew
Webb was drowned but
Niagara Falls had begun several years
later in 1902 the most famous baseball
player in America that year was a man
named ed de la hanty Ed delahati played
for the Washington Senators until one
day his body was mysteriously found
floating face downward in the Niagara
River at the foot of Niagara Falls to
this day one of the greatest mystery in
sports is why Ed de la handy the most
famous baseball player in America should
be found dead at the foot of Niagara
Falls but perhaps the strangest story of
Niagara Falls came the following year
when a famous American actress an
actress named Maude Willard decided to
try and go over Niagara Falls in a
barrel she climbed into this barrel and
taking a friend with her in the barrel
she and her friend were pushed over
Niagara Falls five hours later when the
police dragged that Barrel out of the
whirlpool at the bottom of Niagara Falls
Maude Willard was dead but that friend
that she had taken with her in the
barrel was still alive that friend in
the barrel according to the story was
named Dawson bulldawson and bull Dawson
became famous because he had gone over
Niagara Falls in a barrel and he had
lived after a while however people no
longer remember that bull Dawson had
gone over Niagara Falls and eventually
he went back to his home in Canada for a
while Paul Dawson was forgotten one day
in the small Canadian town of Calvert
where he lived he again made the
headlines when he went out hunting and
in digging into the ground he
accidentally discovered some queer
looking Stones old Dawson did know what
he'd found but some men were hunting
with him knew they knew that it was gold
and it was gold where bull Dawson had
accidentally uncovered a gold mine a
gold mine that has produced over 100
million dollars in gold and is Canada's
second most famous gold mine and is
named the Dawson mine because it was
discovered by bulldawson found only that
this gold mine made his town so famous
that they changed its name from Calvert
to Dawson in honor of bulldawson so
they could do more for the town than
bulldawson had done he had found the
famous Dawson gold mine and because of
this he'd been responsible for the town
changing its name to his name but
dangely enough if the years went by
despite these honors bull Dawson began
to change again getting quarrelsome and
mean
and he was caught stealing but the man
who caught him stealing never lived to
tell about it for bull Dawson turned on
him and killed him now Bo Dawson was
wanted for murder and he was finally
caught however they didn't send bold us
into prison because of what he'd done
for the town but because he was a killer
Paul Dawson was ordered to leave town
and he had to leave town the very town
that was named after him and he was
never seen again
that's the strange story is told to me a
bulldozer who first attracted Fame by
going over Niagara Falls in a barrel and
who lived to discover one of the world's
most fabulous gold mines and yet who
because he was a killer had to leave the
very town that was named after him oh
yeah there's one more thing
gold Dawson wasn't a man he was a dog
a bulldog
real too just a moment we'll present our
special guest in person Eddie Rochester
Anderson the famous Rochester The Jack
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Five colgate's camera close-up of the
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Anne Anderson far better known as
Rochester you've all heard Rochester on
the Jack Benny Program now meet him in
person Jack Benny's valet Rochester boy
I want a relief to be on a show where I
get paid wait a minute Rochester this is
a sports show and just what do you know
about sports well in blackjack you deal
two cards in poker is five and in
harlemen you're one of the most famous
comedians on the air Rochester everybody
hears each week is Jack Benny's ballet
but could we be serious tonight okay
Bill all right on the level I understand
that you own a Racing Stable I do Bill I
own a stable of six race horses in fact
I ran one of my horses in the 1943
Kentucky Derby and where did it finish
I like voting and in fact I have a small
Cruiser recently didn't you get lost at
sea and didn't the Coast Guard have to
come out and rescue you they sure did
but speaking of sports I recently worked
until Lewis's Corner when he fought an
exhibition that in San Francisco well if
you like fighting what'd you think of
the story we told tonight on John Payne
or for that matter the other story we
told on bull Dawson I liked them but
Bill those were such Amazing Stories
where they both according to fact like
say they were primarily Legends but I
found them so interesting I thought
everybody else would let me ask you a
question Rochester thanks to your being
on the Benny Program each week you must
know him pretty well what kind of sports
does he like oh he likes to attend bucks
and bounce and there's a good reason
years ago he used to play in Porterville
and back in the beginning he wasn't
doing very well until one day he was
stranded in Scranton Pennsylvania he had
no job and no money in fact things look
so hopeless for Jack that he was just
about ready to quit that night he met a
prize fighter who made him promise not
to quit but to come to New York and give
it one more try Jack Benny did and of
course you know the rest Jack became a
great success but he never forgot that
prize fighter who saved his career
incidentally that prize fighter was Jack
Dempsey thank you so much good luck and
good night they register Anderson and
that's the 3-0 Mark for tonight we'll be
back next Friday evening same time same
stations with another edition of the
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Guest next Friday evening will be the
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now until this next Friday night at this
very same time this is Bill Stern
wishing you all a good good night
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any Rochester Anderson appeared on this
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well I hope you enjoyed those stories it
reminds me of another story about a man
a broadcaster a contemporary of Bill
Stearns he started his own show in 1951
and it ran until 2008.
the man Paul Harvey
all through her wedding wedding ceremony
Sadie
say nothing after the ceremony she
remembered she had not yet told her
parents or the boy to whom she was
already engaged
breaking her previous engagement was the
easy part Breaking the news to her
parents was something else again because
Sadie knew that her mother and father
would confront her with all the
Practical objections she did not want to
hear Ben was 33 Sadie was still a
teenager Ben was a traveling man that
would be difficult for a young
inexperienced bride
but Sadie was confident and Ben had
promised that she would accompany him
wherever he went and that she did
Sadie adapted quickly to Ben's traveling
life the hotels the hard work the late
hours
during the first weeks it was all a
wonderful Adventure
But as time went by Sadie found herself
contending with an unexpected adversary
jealousy
because in each City Sadie would answer
the hotel room phone to hear a soft
female voice asking for her husband
invariably it was one of Ben's old
girlfriends who had heard that he was in
town but who had not yet heard that he
was married
Ben promptly set each young lady
straight if gently and the deliberate
diplomacy with which he responded to
those calls distressed Sadie in fact
sometimes Ben actually forgot to mention
why he could not see his former
girlfriend that evening and oversight he
explained
but what really bothered Sadie was that
handsome Ben had had so many girlfriends
men assured her that his past was passed
that Sadie was now the only lady in his
life and Sadie knew that was true
yet at that sensitive time of unbridled
emotions and intangible fears Sadie
began to panic each time the phone rang
so now you know how it happened
now you know why Sadie frustrated and
frightened after the fourth call in the
fourth city why is he impulsively
angrily reached up and scratched Ben's
face with her fingernails
almost at that instant Sadie knew it was
a childish thing to do but somehow that
petulant impulsive gesture put
everything in perspective embarrassed by
her insecurity and the silly way she had
expressed it Sadie grew up a little and
newly wed love grew into lasting love
lasting 48 years
looking back on that all but forgotten
episode it is difficult to imagine any
other wise significance for Sadie or Ben
much less for the rest of us
except that Ben's traveling profession
was the Vaudeville stage
and that night attempting to hide the
results of Sadie's rage then walked out
to greet his audience discreetly
covering his cheek with his hand
you know he was concealing fingernail
scratches but his audience did not and
they thought it amusing as eventually
would we all
Sadie she joined Ben's act under the
name Mary Livingston
and Ben who concealed his wife's
childish gesture with a gesture all his
own would be known would be worldwide
recognized by that gesture ever after
Ben Benjamin kubelski
that's right jack Bennett
to this day Impressionists evoke His
image with a glance aside and a hand at
the cheek and you know why because now
you know the rest of the Story
Once Upon a nightmare
Nate and Ben sat in a federal courtroom
in New York City and listened in
stupefied silence as the judge handed
down his verdict guilty the judge
declared
both Nate and Ben were guilty
and the sentence a year and a day
in the federal penitentiary
both men would remember it always as the
scariest moment of their lives
and yet how innocently the disaster had
come upon them
it all started with Nate's wife Grace as
a young girl Grace had been rather
seriously burned her left arm boreless
scars and to conceal the disfigurement
she wore long-sleeved dresses and
blouses her husband Nate had always
wished that he could find just the right
piece of jewelry wide and yet tasteful
bracelet which might help Grace hide the
scars and permit her to wear shorter
sleeves
and then one day Nate called his best
friend Ben guess what Nate said I found
the bracelet for Grace
and then they told Ben how he had dinner
with an acquaintance the night before a
fellow who had brought some jewelry back
from overseas and there was this one
particularly wide diamond bracelet that
Nate simply had to buy so he wrote out a
check on the spot for eighteen hundred
dollars
sounded like a bargain Ben said and Ben
loved bargains
and then Ben asked if the fellow with
the jewelry had anything less expensive
to sell Nate said there was a lovely pin
for 350 dollars
and even though they were talking on the
telephone Nate could almost feel Ben's
eyes light up and so Ben bought The
Broach for his what now everybody's
happy
until several months later
when the process server showed up at the
homes of Nate and Ben with subpoenas for
them to appear in federal court on
charges
of smuggling
the man who had sold him the jewelry
had not paid the proper Duty when he had
brought the jewelry into the country
and yes that was smuggling
so Nate and Ben were in possession of
smuggled property
of course they had not known it
but in this case ignorance was no excuse
so here they are now facing a
considerable stretch
in a federal penitentiary
well the first thing they did was hire
the best criminal lawyer they could find
and the attorney advised them that their
situation was serious
probably there was no way to get them
off which meant only one thing a plea
bargain
they must plead guilty to a lesser
charge and throw themselves on the mercy
of the court and that's just exactly
what Nathan Ben did
they did plead guilty
and they were sentenced to one year plus
in prison
and although the prison term was
suspended quote during good behavior
the episode had proved otherwise costly
tens of thousands of dollars in fines
and attorneys fees
and worth yet because of the unfavorable
publicity Nate lost the sponsor for his
radio show
for Nathan vernbaum and his wife Grace
you know by names now legendary in Show
Business George Burns
and Gracie Allen
and George Burns best friend is equally
unwitting partner in crime attracted by
the prospect of a 350 good deal that
wound up costing him more than sixty
thousand George's Thrifty friend
Benjamin kobelski who also got a
suspended prison sentence in the bargain
you know as Jack Benny only now you know
the rest of the story