Word: mercerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Chicago's Dr. Alonzo M. Mercer: "The Negro doctor doesn't get a break in hospitals, to get his patient in there or to practice there . . . Let's take another year and think about it." That was what the convention promptly decided to do. It was smart politics, and gave Negro doctors a year to see what concessions they could get at hospitals and medical schools controlled by A.M.A. members...
...Baby into the score of a picture, Neptune's Daughter (see CINEMA), that he was doing for MGM. Spotting it as a natural, record companies put their best boy-&-girl teams to recording it. First with the best: Dinah Shore and Buddy Clark (Columbia), Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer (Capitol). Mercury even got Frank and Lynn Loesser on wax. MGM, which peddles records as well as motion pictures, and originally had the inside track on Baby, was left at the post and lamely put out a record of the song from the film's soundtrack...
Hurler Herb Mercer led Adams to victory, assisted by Gold Coaster Will Brown who rapped three hits...
Adams, possessor of the top pitcher of the House League, Roger Davis, came up with another good hurler yesterday. He is Herb Mercer, and his 15 strike-out total was the deciding factor in the win over Eliot...
...Goldcoasters hit their best of the season. Fred Crafts slammed a homer with one on, and Mercer hit a triple...