Word: crumit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Frank Crumit, 53, Julia Sanderson's genial, longtime stage and radio teammate; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A banker's son, Crumit tried vaudeville while waiting to land an engineering job. He became Miss Sanderson's leading man in 1922, married her in 1927. Singing, ukulele-playing Crumit wrote more than 25 songs, sold more than 4,000,000 recordings...
When the Jones clique learned he wanted to be a prize fighter they formed a syndicate to back him: 22 of them, including Jones, Sportswriter Grantland Rice, Actor Frank Crumit, Socialite Tommy Tailer, Stockbroker Clifford Roberts, L. B. Maytag (washing machines), Bartlett Arkell (BeechNut Co.), Aired Severin Bourne (Singer sewing machines) and many another gold-spooned golfer. To manage their waif, they got Chick Wergeles, a Broadway press agent...