Word: crooner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wanted: Maybe Mary Poppins, Inc. Servants of the churches are not free of financial concerns either, and gone are the days of "the clergyman's rate." Men of the cloth now pay the full price. See RELIGION, The Disappearing Discount. And in the entertainment world, a blue-eyed crooner, son of a bartender, can make as much as $30,000 a week on the cabaret circuit. See SHOW BUSINESS, Song-&-Glance...
...during the vo-dee-o-do era of rumble seats and rolled-down hose that Rudy Vallee first took megaphone in hand, intoned "I'm just a vagabond lover," and invented the crooner. In the 35 years since, the crooner has endured through a succession of other musical crazes to become an American institution-if one that almost went under in the first great waves of rock 'n' roll. In the last few years the crooner has come back stronger-and sleeker-than ever...
Born. To Andy Williams, 34, TV's top-rated weekly crooner (Moon River), and Claudine Longet Williams, 24, his French-born wife: their second child, first son; in Burbank, Calif...
Divorced. Dick Haymes, 47, World War II vintage crooner who made more than $4,000,000 but declared himself bankrupt in 1960 after dividing it between Uncle Sam, his agents and his first four wives (No. 4: Rita Hay worth); by Fran Jeffries, 25, nightclub singer and sometime actress; on grounds of extreme cruelty (he was jealous of her rising career, she said): after six years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
PERRY COMO'S MUSIC HALL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). With Crooner Dean Martin and Singer-Dancer Carol Lawrence. Color...