Word: ventriloquists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...penchant for carrying tunes, although his knees seem to suffer now and then under the load. He sings rapidly, in a style that could be called 2Oth century Benzedrine, slurring the lyrics of Up a Lazy River or Clementine through lips that move no more than a carny ventriloquist's, while the song seems to be coming out of his left ear. He is versatile. At one moment he could be the kid brother of Eddie Fisher, a little later the son of Perry Como, later still the natural child of Frank Sinatra...
...Larger Weakness. Some of the soldiers on the British side were as resourceful as only years in Singapore could teach: an Australian sergeant combed the streets with a ventriloquist whose many voices caused the Japanese to pop their heads out from their trees while the sergeant picked them off. But most of the troops were too poorly trained, too disorganized to have the stomach to fight to save Singapore...