Word: crooners
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...Yale, worked his way through (including coonskin coat) by playing at dances. In 1927 he started his career as a full-fledged jazzman. In May he married but this is suppressed in his autobiography, perhaps because the marriage was annulled after three months, perhaps because a professional love-crooner publicizes better as an untrammeled soul. Just one of his current contracts (Fleischmann Yeast) is for well over a thousand a week (one hour of broadcasting) for a year...
...with Capt. Crocker on the sloop Shadow. Then came his string of "oo" boats-Papoose (1887), Babboon (35-footer), Gossoon (40-footer) in which he beat Capt. Charles Barr in the Scotch cutter Minerva; Harpoon (1892) in which he won the Goelet Cup at Newport; and the Rooster and Crooner. He is a stern skipper; his own son calls him "Mister Adams" on shipboard...