Word: brendel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...championship made the old loggers look like sissies; and 28-year-old Jimmy Herron, boom man for a Longview (Wash.) lumber mill, who was crowned "King of the White Water" at the last championship meet in 1938. Champion Herron, who once doubled for Cinemactor El Brendel in the log-driving scenes in God's Country and the Woman, had a tough time defending his crown. He won the first fall in 9 min., 2 sec., but lost the second in 3:10. On the "toothpick," with the count tied, the hardy old Tiger had to use every trick...
...sing Burke & Monaco's l Haven't Time to Be a Millionaire, Meet the Sun Halfway and Pessimistic Character. Alone, Bing Crosby sings ll I Had My Way. This is very easy on the ear, but along with it spectators have to take the Swedish wit, El Brendel, and a story in which, for the sake of Gloria Jean, Singer Crosby abandons the carefree life of a structural steelworker to become a restaurateur. As practiced by Singer Crosby, the restaurant business turns out to be an excuse for a second helping of such old-timers as Female Impersonator...