Word: mercer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Orphans of the Storm Coast Guard headquarters in Boston braced for battle as the tanker Fort Mercer, 29 miles off Cape Cod's Pollock Rip lightship, sent out an S O S. The worst nor'easter of the winter was burying New England in gale-blown snow and raising pure white hell offshore. Blinding snow, 50-ft. waves, and winds up to 90 miles an hour smashed the distressed tanker as the Coast Guard cutter Yakutat and the Navy cargo ship Short Splice hunted her. Just after noon, she broke...
...washing about in Chatham shoals 25 miles from where they were supposed to be. A low-flying search plane investigated, and read the name Pendleton on the broken vessel's bow. Only then did the Coast Guard realize that a second tanker-a sister ship of the Fort Mercer -had also split in two. The ship's radio was dead and the sections had been drifting for hours...
...that time, he had already proved that he was a rebel at heart. As a grammar-school principal in Georgia, he had stirred up flurries of controversy by doing away with report cards and never punishing his pupils. Later, as a professor of mathematics at Georgia's Baptist Mercer University, he stirred up more controversy by admitting that he did not believe in the Virgin birth. After a three-day theological trial before the trustees, he was forced to resign. Some months after that, he headed north to Columbia...
...Banana (words & music by Johnny Mercer; book by Hy Kraft; produced by Paula Stone & Mike Sloane) is the most enjoyable show, considering how many things are wrong with it, that Broadway has seen in years. Few recent musicals have been so generally fast on their feet; fewer still have been so truly funny. And none has been more of a one-man show...
...King" Cole; Capitol). A new tune by Johnny Mercer from the forthcoming Broadway show, Top Banana. Both Mercer and Cole slipped on the skin...