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...said the letter, "he was the sharpest cadet ever to hit the runways at Maxwell Field. He soloed after four hours, slow-rolled after 20. By the time he reached Basic, he could do a splitS from 2,000 feet; in Advanced, he could fly instruments like a night hawk, and he'd give his instructor the jitters by touching wing tips in formation...
Welterweight Billy Graham had fought Champion Kid Gavilan three times before. Irish Billy took a split decision in one of two nontitle bouts. Cuba's "Kid Hawk" won the other, plus a title defense against Billy-also on split decisions. But the last time Slugger Graham tangled with Boxer Gavilan, Billy's admirers were bitter as they left Madison Square Garden. They muttered darkly that Billy had been robbed; they began calling him "the champ without the crown...
...Hawk got an announcing job on a Monday morning, and by Friday he was fired. At that time Chicago was the nation's radio capital, and had 22 broadcasting stations. Bob Hawk, a man with a new ambition, began to make the rounds. He recalls : "It was like a big wheel. You'd get fired from one station and go to the next, get fired, and then move on around. I was fired from more stations than there are in Chicago right now." Between jobs he jerked sodas, carried mail, sold pianos, told jokes in a nightclub owned...
...Hawk made his national reputation during the 20 months that he starred on Take It or Leave It ("Now you've won one dollar; do you want to try for two?"), and thinks it won its top rating because it was "just a crap game on the air." In 1942 he signed with Camel cigarettes and has been with Camels ever since-one of the longest tours of duty any performer has had with the same sponsor. At the end of the war, Bob had an idea for a replacement for his popular Thanks to the Yanks show...
Third Party. For such ideas, for his jokes (he estimates he has 25,000 stored in his head), and his mellow voice, Camel has paid Hawk approximately $2,000,000 over the past ten years. Bob says he is always careful to treat contestants on the Bob Hawk Show (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS), broadcast from Hollywood, with "real consideration. We never let contestants think we are laughing at them. We always pick out a third party, like a husband, and laugh about...