Word: mercer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hold out until Friday night, you can get a look at the Duke Ellington orchestra conducted by Duke's son Mercer at nearby Sanders Theatre...
...bear to listen to myself," said Mabel Mercer on her 75th birthday. But every smart pop singer in the past 50 years has listened and learned from Mercer how to shape and pace a lyric. Her unique style of talking a song was developed to compensate for her failing soprano voice. Now, she says, "it's just a noise." Enough, however, to hold some 500 guests spellbound at her birthday party in Manhattan. Mabel's star pupil could not make the party, but he did not forget the singer who "taught me everything I know." Frank Sinatra sent...
...order to weave the kind of narrative that has given him bestsellers before (The Day Lincoln Was Shot, The Day Christ Died). Bishop has produced a rare, humanizing portrait of Roosevelt, including the fullest account yet of the President's enduring and wistful love affair with Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, who died...
Traditionally, the alumni at Harvard have preferred to follow the leads set by the administration and support most decisions that are made--even though they may disagree personally. Douglas Mercer '40, former vice chairman of the Harvard College Fund, praises the enormous loyalty of Harvard alumni. "Over the years if the administration went in one direction after careful study, the alums have said 'aye, aye, sir,' even if it might be something that is not in their best interests or desires. The interests of donors have never been a factor in Harvard giving. The supporters of Harvard know that...
...Mercer also claims that he has never heard the question of changing numbers of men and women seriously discussed as a fundraising issue among his classmates: "If I personally were to write a descriptive letter about the good things going on at Harvard today, this [increasing numbers of women] is one of the things I would affirmatively state. This is not a factor in discouraging giving. I look at the big donors--some of them my friends--and I count them all up as being heavily in favor of more women at Harvard...