Word: mercerizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GREAT BRAIN, by John D. Fitzgerald, illustrated by Mercer Mayer (Dial; $3.95). In Mormon Utah in 1896, Tom ("The Great Brain") is the craftiest kid around. Whether figuring a way to make money when his father gets the first flush toilet in town or teaching a one-legged boy how not to be "useless," Tom is very funny; the illustrations are excellent...
Wednesday, November 22 KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Dinah Shore, Ray Charles, Johnny Mercer and the Everly Brothers twanging away at "The Nashville Sound...
SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). The Mamas and The Papas, Dionne Warwick, Simon and Garfunkel, Johnny Mercer and Burt Bacharach get together in "The song-makers," explaining how they test-and play to-the public's ever-changing taste. Repeat...
...Psychology); D. N. Fruedenberger of Rochester, N.Y. (English); Allan R. Glass of Fairefield, Conn. (Engineering and Applied Physics); David R. Goldman of Maplewood, N.J. (English); Stephen Griffith of Washington, D. C. (Government); Walter Hellerstein of New York (Government); Paul C. Julien of Waltham (Physics); D. B. MacDonald of Mercer Island, Wash. (History); E.J. McDonald Jr. of Washington, D.C. (Biology); Daniel C. S. Moulton of New York (Classics); James E. Pesando of Andover (Economics) and Woodriff D. Smith of San Antonio, Tex. (History...
...especially since they put up to $200 a week in tips on his piano. His secret, he explains, is that "I don't play at them; I make them come to me." - Norman Wallace, at Chicago's Mon Petit, is a singer in the tradition of Mabel Mercer-quiet, cool, reassuring. In the '40s, he wrote songs for Edith Piaf; later he tried his hand at musicals in New York before migrating to Chicago, where he leavens a Continental repertory with up-tempo show tunes and a few Beatle ballads. The social set and young marrieds think...