The Archive · 1939

Source of "Hot Tip"

When I left Tracy, Oliver Hardy me up and asked Tracy who ne iked in the next race. Tracy said, "The only thing I have heard mentioned is Joe Sam." Hardy went to Joe E. Brown and said that he had just had "a tip on Joe Sam. Brow hurried over to share the "good thing" with Florence Rice. Florence gave it to her mother, who gave it to Grantland Rice, who gave it to Bing Crosby, who gave it to Frank Lloyd. who gave it to Frank Condon, why rushed over to me and said:

"Pal, we'll get all even this race. There's a thing named Joe Sam who can't miss."

Joe Sam didn't miss. Didn't mi. being fourth, that is. Now I know where one hot tip was born. in pose. and his name was Joe Sam, a sorry I ever knew him.—United Press,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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