Word: mercerizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SONGMAKERS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). How to read the public taste and how to make a hit with it are the subjects; The Mamas and The Papas, Dionne Warwick, Simon and Garfunkel, and Songwriters Johnny Mercer and Burt Bacharach do the explaining...
...giving them only perfunctory treatment. Though both papers are owned by Scripps-Howard, they operate independently. "We decided it would not be fair to pick out individuals in a few selected cases," explained Enquirer Publisher Francis Dale. He had reason. Reporter Horner had discovered that Enquirer Court Reporter Tom Mercer and Columnist Frank Weikel had both served recently as appraisers...
...Character is fate." The Heraclitean precept has been mislaid by a generation of moviemakers more concerned on the whole with their medium than with Man. In this resolutely ordinary yet oddly powerful little picture, a Czech director named Jiří (pronounced Yershee) Weiss, a British scriptwriter named David Mercer...
...romance between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lucy Mercer continued to be the talk of Washington. Since Jonathan Daniels revealed the 30-year romance of the President and his wife's onetime social secretary in The Time Between the Wars, additional details, waves of remembrances and a good deal of gossip have kept the story alive...
...save." Nonetheless, F.D.R. and Lucy were to be "attached by ties of deep and unbroken affection to the day he died." By all accounts, F.D.R. thereafter kept in frequent contact with Lucy. For example, says Daniels, he "quietly arranged for special tickets and a special car for Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd at his Inauguration" in 1933. He also visited the Rutherfurds' stately winter home in Aiken, S.C., several times, and the Rutherfurds called at the White House. Daniels says that Lucy visited the Little White House at Warm Springs, Ga., on several occasions. In fact, though her presence was unpublicized...