Word: mercer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rambunctious shenanigans of the Top Banana are mounted in a colorful setting of good tunes and bad jokes. With Johnny Mercer responsible for words and music of some 16 songs it is hard to see how so much of the music should be so good while the lyrics are so bad. Several of the tunes are excellent; one, a comedy bit called "A Word A Day," is as clever as anything that appeared on Broadway last season, but the general level is much lower...
...long and devoted service to the children of his neighborhood, the Council also decided to name the traffic circle at Mt. Auburn Street and Elmwood Avenue after the late Professor William J. Harris. Harris built a bathhouse for the children of his Mercer Circle neighborhood as well as performing many other services for them...
...Petty Girl (Columbia) is an apocryphal account of how Calendar Artist George Petty awakened to his talent for drawing biologically improbable cheesecake. A freehand farce with some pleasant tunes by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, the movie is just as implausible as Petty girls-and almost as well-turned and diverting...
...venture made Asa Mercer a local hero, helped win him election to the territorial legislature without an opposing vote, and inspired him to try the stunt all over again a year later. But this time he had his troubles. Willing Yankee maidens were not at fault; they signed up by the hundreds. The trouble started when the New York Herald howled that Mercer's maidens were headed for Northwest brothels. Reluctantly, two-thirds of his charges saved their reputations by backing out; Mercer managed to get a scant hundred of them on the boat. Because some deserted...
...Yankee Exodus has some arid stretches, notably the endless lists of early settlers' names that appear in every chapter. But dozens of such rousingly written real life tales as the saga of Seattle's Mercer Girls will be bounty enough for readers who follow the Yankee trails all the way West...