Word: mercer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Johnny Mercer wrote and Judy Garland belted out those lyrics in 1946. Now, many of the songs written about railroads are nostalgic goodbyes, but the whistles are still blowing on the Santa Fe. The railroad, which operates 13,000 miles of track from Chicago through the Southwest to California, is big, modern and-a rarity these days-profitable...
Died. Johnny Mercer, 66, onetime mellow-voiced blues crooner, four-time Oscar-winning lyricist; after a long illness and brain surgery; in Bel Air, Calif. As a lyricist, Mercer had a knack for turning the vernacular into such enduring pop songs as Jeepers Creepers, Lazybones, That Old Black Magic and Moon River...
...reasons for the Fund's success this year, Clifton cited "the strong leadership in reunion classes," the healtheir economy, and increased travel on the Fund's behalf by Dean Rosovsky and Douglas Mercer '40, director of this year's drive...
...Mercer, a Ropes and Gray lawyer, will announce the year's success at the Fund's annual meeting at the Faculty Club this afternoon, Clifton said...
...circles. He married his patrician cousin Eleanor in 1905, kept his dining tables and drawing rooms decorated with bright young women from Chestnut Hill and Tuxedo Park, and from 1913 until the day he died in 1945 carried on a secret but by now much-publicized affair with Lucy Mercer, a daughter of Maryland gentry and for a time Eleanor's personal secretary...