Word: wiedoeft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been anything but lazy, casual, or amorous. He ran away from school at 15, enlisted in the Navy. After that he helped in his father's store, ushered at the village theatre, bought himself a saxophone. Shrewd, he taught himself fine points of technique by aping Saxophonist Rudy Wiedoeft on the phonograph. Thence his nickname, bestowed by mates at the University of Maine. He transferred to 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...
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