[NU Sports] Spring Practice! - First Trib Story

[Dennis W. Brandt]

Speaking of Superman, who among us of sufficient years on planet Earth 
didn't run around in our long underwear with a pair of undershorts on top 
and a towel safety-pinned around our necks while we ran around making 
whooshing noises as we pretended to fly.  Waxing nostalgic, I recently 
rented some of the DVDs from the first year (1951 perhaps?).  In one, Jimmy 
Olsen is visiting his aunt on a secluded island off New England when in 
finally dawns on him that isn't really his aunt (DUH!) and that she is the 
head of a gang up to no good.  He finds a pay phone - this on a island c. 
1950 - and calls Clark at the Daily Planet to express his concern.  Clark 
hangs up, rushes into a room that no one ever uses, rips off the hat he 
wasn't wearing in the previous scene, and flies out the window, once more 
unseen by a city of millions.  Landing on the island a moment later, he 
quickly changes back into Clark Kent and finds Jimmy, who asks excitedly, 
"Golly, Mr. Kent, how did you get here so fast?"  Clark stammers, "Uh . . . 
I caught an early flight."

Yep, we believed anything in those days.