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The All-Americans Go to Japan (Entry 032.1K0728)

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The Biggest Celebrity in the World

CNN.com's John Sutter takes a look back at one of the most famous people in American history, Babe Ruth. The late 1930s and 1940s were an era when celebrity was still relatively new to America. A Japanese newspaper magnate decided to hire babe ruth for publicity purposes. But he soon found out that his relationship with her had turned into something much more sinister.

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