The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 7, 1953, Page 5

Patriot Honored Pa aah it VISITING NEWSMEN AND WOMEN from Havana toured the city yesterday, and among places of interest to them was the monument to Jose Marti, the Cuban liberator. Picture shows Oscar Morales, Cuban Consul, speaking to his people as wreaths are placed on the memorial statue. Standing next to Morales is the dean of Havana's radio commentators, ®enior Del R. Vizo, more commonly known as “Siboney.”—Citizen Staff Photo, Finch. Serious Losses Told By French In Indochina “Stonday, December 7, 1953 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN Page ‘AmazingStory Of “Crazylegs” (Crash In Georgia; tion cite: St Hirsch Makes Thrilling Movie I! Pilots Killed °c. °°". { LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. & — It is a care thing when the ops Haars Shortly after his return — pe cotgagenes : $5 of a 29-year-old man still living is!to civilian life, Elroy proposed to °°" ; ; é became jovie, and it is still/pum Stahmer, and the 3 i Rt : - - NEW COLOR FOR FABRICS oo co prem gray baer married just before the 1946 All- .. ir , ‘ ar ae 2b ata touch of your finger! himself. But this is exactly what|American Star Game at Chicago, i eae ae re alt se ae a iets Si happened to Elroy (Crazylegs) {Where Hirsch scored the only two © . 5 2 bd Hirsch, famous football star with/touchdowns of the game and won e ‘ > % the Los Angeles Rams, and the/Contract with the Chicago Rockets of th seat : r. " Fab Spray 5 (pl ee Poste ee sagen inless seasons. . ‘ 9 A w seasons, r ed 4 a < Seeciet Seabees Goneroocy. ernsias wat repeatedly injured aoe oe oe Me PIERCE BROS. and, in 1948, he sustained a skull 0 nd us afte: Cer. Fleming and rated on a pete stl racture. His coordination gone f mi . ' caper Hirsch, a foundry work.(Hirsch was told he would never Sqprhpagre Mavine. jplay again, but he determinedly|Atlanta eae boy im 2 poor family {worked himself back into shape ’ and, in 1949, the Los Angeles Rams Hirsch weighed only 125 a offered Hirsch a porate |whea he turned out for high school| "her spending most of his first \football and failed to make the p. ams season on the bench, Hirsch squad. He spent a summer deve- was switched from halfback to end e e {loping an elusive stride by dodging where he immediately began to ‘among trees in a grove near his sosrkie In 1951, when the Rams & home town, meantime gaining 40 yon the world’s championship, |pounds. iCrazylegs set a new National Foot When Roy reported for football 5.1 League record by gaining 1, again, the high school coach, Win 495 yards, and tied Don Hutson’: baggre gedeld ye ee ae NFL record by scoring 17 touch- | curiou * downs on passes. begieny Sua wanes tote At the bar of the year, Hirsch ped i = ~ ....won a former Rams players a cords as a starting halfback in his ysrq as the team’s “most inspirs- nacre Il History tional player.” Footbal | Important Meeting | Although Hirsch wanted to work! yote in 1952, Hirsch met Hall jand Support his parents, they per- Bartlett, producer of the Academy jSuaded him to go to college and he award nominee, “Navajo,” in res- Chose the University of Wisconsin ponse to a letter from Bartlett ask- — where his high school sweet-iing the grid star to meet a 10- jheart, Ruth Stahmer, also enroll-|\¥e3751 boy from a broken home ed. iwho idolized Crazylegs. Out of In 1942, is first year on the their meeting developed a close Wisconsin varsity, Hirch was nam- friendship and the idea of a fed- American halfback, and won “ é ” HANOI, Indochina ( — Thejever, that French and Vietnamese)fore dawn. An infantry assault fol- ed. All-America ture film “Crazylegs,” based on French army command said today|troops manning the post and the|lowed. its forces beat off a Vietminh at-\armored column sen‘ to their aid| tempt to destroy Gia Loc, a key A French relief column fought transferred to the University of the lasting nickname Hirsch’s actual life story. Bartlett Enlisting in the rines, wrote the screen play and spent | " six months rehearsing Hirsch for All nall dvertised stronghold the high-|Suffered, “serious losses” in the)its way through an ambush on the| Michigan, site of _ v2 rhea his acting bow as co-star with . Natio Y A wy Baeae Hanoi vith the fea five-hour battle yesterday. No fig-|road with the aid of French fight Lage age again made All-Am-\1jovq Nolan and Joan Vohs. 3 Vietminh 1943, He also became; apart from his new-found acting | ‘ . s rt of Haiphong. The Frenchjures were given. ers and bombers. The | f ie \ ~s tlaimed they inflicted “extremely| Crack Vietminh Regiment 42, sp eetelg tr bap oe finally drove itar pitcher for the base-(Cree™ ted oe —— ate , ; Ica abel Lee fenemme blasted Scie | ball nine, and leading broadjumper tary over ABC. He now resides in ‘3 : a The French acknowledged, how-|tar and machine gun fire just be-|Citizen Ads Bring Resul New Mecron’s Stor Opening Soon APPLICATIONS FOR SALESLADIES ACCEPTED Starting Tuesday Morning, December 8 Hello, There! Did You Know That McCrory’s Would Be A Fine Place For You To Work? Check ALL Of These Advantages ts" the track squad. 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