Word: mercerizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Better than Budge," said famed Coach Mercer Beasley-and who was Rod to argue when he was guaranteed $110,000 to play with the pros? "If you really want the satisfaction of knowing how good you can be," Laver explained, "you've got to pit yourself against guys like Rosewall and Gonzales. My ambition is to become No. 1-and stay there as long as possible...
Murph Cohen and Lee Mercer will lead the Green attack. Mercer, honorable mention all-American last year, has five assists in the Green's 10-7 win over Cornell last week while Cohen scored three times. The Dartmouth attack, with ten goals in each Ivy encounter, lost All-American Mike Herriott, who scored 46 times last year, to graduation...
...team tournament, originally scheduled for 36 holes, was limited to 18, although by noon the skies had cleared and it would have been possible, according to Manager Doug Mercer, to play a second round...
...Harvard five-some, according to Mercer, were bothered more by the weather yesterday than Tufts, B.C., or third place Northeastern. In this same tournament played against the same opponents on the same Weston course last fall, Harvard won easily as Campen and first man Brian McGuinn tied for tournament honors with low scores...
Died. Tom Mercer Girdler, 87, chairman of Republic Steel Corp. from 1937 to 1956, a tough-talking engineer who took over a faltering company, gradually built it into the industry's third biggest producer (after U.S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel), but is best remembered for his tooth-and-nail opposition to unions, a fight that resulted in the bloody 1937 South Chicago strike (ten killed, hundreds injured) and eventually idled nearly a million workers in seven states for six weeks; of a heart attack; in Easton...