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...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...
Radcliffe sophomore captain Lissa Muscatine, playing the number two spot, edged Yale's Margaret Mercer, 7-6, 6-4, while in a gruelling three-and-a-half hour match, freshman Sukie Macgraw out-fought Linden Havemayer, 7-6, 3-6, 7-5. In the other singles match, freshman Rita Funaro crushed Yale's Janet Rachelson...
...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...
...gonna love you like nobody's loved you, come rain or come shine." For a brief moment at Manhattan's St. Regis hotel, the '30s notion that hearts were made to be broken was revived. The spiritualist: former Liverpudlian Mabel Mercer, 73, who began singing 60 years ago and went on to become the Madame de Sévigné of the supper clubs. Seated in a Louis XV armchair, Mercer held the kind of wry musical conversation on affairs of the heart that has made a minor art form of ballad singing and influenced singers from...