Word: mercer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Readers old enough to remember the 1944 hit Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive may find themselves murmuring Johnny Mercer's upbeat lyrics as they delve into the newest study of the nation's health and status. The Real America (Doubleday; $7.95) will not be published until this fall, but galleys have been circulating in Washington for weeks; President Ford has already publicly applauded its conclusions. This is hardly surprising, since Author Ben J. Wattenberg's upbeat and arguable analysis of the state of the Union amply reinforces Ford's own optimistic outlook...
...Duke Ellington Orchestra, under the direction of Mercer Ellington, who must be Duke's brother, is making its first Boston appearance in Franklin Park in Dorchester Sunday night at 8:30 p.m. It's hard to imagine the concert being an entirely happy occasion because Duke's loss will probably be sadly apparent, but the band is still great and the concert is free...
...monastic. If wrestling with a new work, he would write all night in his apartment on Manhattan's West Side. Parties? "I just don't have time to be a social cat." Since the death of Strayhorn in 1967, Ellington's closest intimates were his son Mercer, who played trumpet in the band and served as road manager, and his sister Ruth, president of Ellington's publishing firm Tempo Music. Ellington's marriage to Mercer's mother, his high school sweetheart, Edna Thompson, was short-lived. Though never lacking for female companionship...
Radcliffe's second doubles entry, sophomore Maude Wood and freshman Sukie Magraw, encountered few problems in disposing of a Smith team, 6-3, 6-2, in the first round. They then stung the third-seeded Havemeyer-Mercer duo from Yale with a come-from-behind 7-5, 6-1 victory. Trailing, 5-2, in the first set, the pair regrouped and swept the next five games. They easily ran out the next set to take the match...
...doubles action, Thal and Muscatine fell to Rosenblum and Mercer, 6-4, 6-1, but doubles combinations Macgraw-Funaro and Wood-Agoos, playing the number two and three spots respectively, easily conquered their opponents...