Composer and songwriter ("The Whiffenpoof Song"), educated at Amherst College (BA, MA). He was a probate judge, then a secretary to the governor of Ohio. During World War I, he was a YMCA entertainer in France. Joining ASCAP in 1933, his other popular-song compositions include "Little Boy Blue", "O Heart of Mine", "The Gypsy Trail", "When Spring

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