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...Every time I shave I cut my Adam's apple." This plaintive observation burst one day from Johnny Mercer, a nondescript, drawling Southerner who had been hanging onto the fringes of Broadway at the tail end of the gin & depression era. From force of habit, Johnny Mercer made a song out of it. The song made...
Frank Parker from California played his first matches at Forest Hills ten years ago as a 16-year-old pride of famed Tennis Coach Mercer Beasley. For a decade one of the first ten ranking U.S. players, Parker developed the steadiest game in contemporary U.S. tennis, but he could never win against brilliance, had never won the national title. This year gave him his chance. The first full test came when he met Segura in the semifinal round...
Moon Mist (Duke Ellington; Victor). Distinctive Ellington treatment of an indigo tune by the bandleader's son, Mercer Ellington, introduced by rhapsodic fiddling from Trumpeter Ray Nance...
Richard O. Ulin '38, 2G, who succeeded Douglas Mercer '40, 21, as secretary of the Union Committee this winter, left College yesterday for Pensacola Naval Air Station. He will first learn machine-gunning, then receive a commission to teach it there...
...Blues as a classic. Unlike the Handy songs, it did not spring from Mississippi Valley soil, but was machined to order for a Warner Brothers movie by two Tin Pan Alley veterans. Curly-haired Harold Arlen, composer of the unforgettable Stormy Weather, did the music; 32-year-old Johnny Mercer, the words. After hearing the song, the Warners promptly changed the film's title from New Orleans Blues to Blues in the Night. Since November, 14 recordings of Blues in the Night have sold a million-odd copies. To sing it from start to finish is a tricky...