Word: mercer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spent 30 minutes preparing himself, then delivered a rousing 40-minute oration on the duties of a citizen to the Government, using Robert E. Lee as his shining example. It was a whopping success; George decided that the law was the field for him. Medals & Mobs. He went to Mercer University (which, in 1947, named its law school after George), won medals for extemporaneous speaking four years in a row, took the Georgia and Southern States oratorical championships in his first year of law school, graduated Phi Beta Kappa, and received his law degree...
Friday with Garroway (Fri. 8:30 p.m., NBC). With Johnny Mercer, James Cagney...
...Mercer Island divided bitterly over Stenhouse. Three of his four fellow board members called on him to resign. "Personally," he said, "I'd rather resign and crawl into a hole somewhere." Late last month some 250 islanders thronged to a meeting in the Mercer Crest School to discuss the issue. As Stenhouse listened, 38 of his neighbors spoke varying opinions. "Let's rise on our hind legs and throw him out!" cried one. "Our American schools must be kept free of even a suspicion that they may be guided along Communistic lines," said a local veterans' leader...
...Judge . . ." But mostly, the people of Mercer Island wanted Stenhouse to stay despite the record disclosed by the House Subcommittee's visit. "We urge," said a spokesman for the county Young Republicans, "that individuals who have made candid and complete disclosures be given every fair consideration." Pleaded a doctor: "Let us judge a man for what he is and not for what he has been. Let us cherish a man's right to his past and respect what he has come to be in the present." Stenhouse spoke last at the school-house meeting. "I realize I made...
...last week John Stenhouse, one of the 750,000 mostly anonymous Americans who at some time in their lives joined the Communist Party, had made his decision. For the time being at least, he was going to stick it out on Mercer Island and on the school board. "In the long run," he said, "I suppose this is just one of those things you have to live...