Word: mercerizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Casbah Fellow. A native Georgian, Scholar Currie broke all academic records at Mercer University Law School ('35), was the OPA lawyer who led the crackdown on black-market lumber chiselers during World War II. He has taught at the universities of Georgia, Chicago, California and Pittsburgh, where he was law dean in 1952. He has edited such journals as Law and Contemporary Problems, been a fellow at California's famed Casbah (Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences). While delighting law professors with doggerel mockeries of celebrated lawsuits, Currie has built his serious reputation on profound studies...
Alumnae came all the way from Mercer Island, Wash., and La Jolla, Cal., to attend the sixth biennial Radcliffe College Alumnae Council. Over 100 of the remaining delegates were from Massachusetts...
...Burton's repressed ambition, and he set to work in longhand. The result, which will next month become his first published short story, is anything but an embarrassment. It is worth every farthing he was paid for it. "He gets $500," says Glamour's Feature Editor Marilyn Mercer, "which is a very good price for a beginning writer...
...Salute to Eddie Condon," the famed, feisty guitarist who has reigned for some 25 years as public defender of "old style" Dixieland. Staged at midnight in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, the event had all the makings for a Great Moment in jazz history. Bob Crosby and Johnny Mercer came in from the West Coast. Woody Herman and his 16-piece band were bussed uptown between shows at a Times Square jazz emporium. All told, 43 musicians gathered to pay homage, many of them the founding fathers of "hot jazz," ragtime's carefree child born in the backrooms...
...Singing the Blues. Crosby led ten enlistees through a lively, give-and-go session of Royal Garden Blues. But betwixt and between, le jazz hot tended to run lukewarm, and when it was over at 3:20 a.m., the Great Moment had never quite happened. M.C.s Crosby and Mercer did their best to keep the music flowing as freely as the whisky backstage, but the profusion of talent was largely wasted in the confusion of an erratic format...