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Dick Whiting tunes made famous by such stars as Nora Bayes, Maurice Chevalier and Eddie Cantor. By the time she was 14, Family Friend Johnny Mercer decided that Margaret's velvety voice was good enough for a guest spot on his radio show. By 1941, 17-year-old Maggie had struck out on her own, got on Lucky Strike's Your Hit Parade. But her sweet and slow singing did not please irascible Tobacco Huckster George Washington Hill, who "liked 'em loud and fast." She was fired after four weeks...
Mahoney, a three-sport star, reportedly played for the Mercer Club of Everett...
Married. Jacque Mercer, 18, Atlantic City's "Miss America" for 1949; and Douglas Cook, 20, her high-school beau; in a surprise wedding in her home town, Litchfield Park, Ariz, (see PEOPLE...
...spoofing, Texas, Li'l Darlin' is sporadic and seldom adept. It shines brightest in Johnny Mercer's lyrics, notably about private secretaries...
...Copyright, 1949, by Johnny Mercer and Robert Emmett Dolan...