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DIED. Mabel Mercer, 84, reigning queen of cabaret singers for nearly 70 years, whose unsurpassed ability to turn even the most banal tune into a timeless vignette of love and loss delighted generations of supper-club audiences; of heart disease; in Pittsfield, Mass. Born in England of a white English mother and black American father, Mercer gained renown at Bricktop's Paris café in the 1930s and went to the U.S. in 1939. As her husky contralto began to fail, she honed her unique blend of cadenced speech and vocalizing, delivering such songs...
...able to tap a vein of idealism that is a permanent feature of the American political landscape but accessible only to an occasional candidate. "I haven't felt as excited about a campaign since Kennedy," says James H. Kean, 42, an export trader and retired Marine colonel from Mercer Island, Wash. "The neat thing about Hart's campaign is that it's mostly volunteers. It's that corny American democracy...
Evans, who was Governor from 1965 to 1977, took an unexpectedly large share (55%) of the vote. One improbable supporter was Walter Mercer, 50, a labor lawyer who calls himself "a left-wing Democrat." Says Mercer: "He's the most progressive politician in the state. In the Senate, I expect him to vote very independently. He thinks for himself." Evans is what used to be called a Rockefeller Republican. His victory was important for the G.O.P, but it would be a mistake to count his voters as enlistees in the Reagan re-election cause...
...Paul Sharon FB 5-11 195 Sr. Marlboro, MA 20 Chunk Sharon SE 5-11 160 Se. Waterlee, IA 18 K.C. Smith ADJ 6-2 196 Se. Doorfield, MA 8 Rob Steimberg P-PK 5-10 175 Se. Los Angeles, CA 25 Ken Tarcry CB 6-0 175 Se. Mercer, PA 68 Ben Thie OG 5-11 230 Jr. Carmmoders, CA 38 Craing Uecker LB 6-0 195 Sr. Hollywood, FL 1 Dennala Vechi QB 5-11 100 Jr. Tewakbury, MA 33 Mark Vignali RB 5-11 105 Jr. uniondown, PA 16 Jimmy Villowaeva...
...appear at Miss America preliminaries. Here a blueberry festival, there a strawberry festival, and the odd hog-calling contest comes into the picture too. And you represent the sponsors of the pageant. This year that would be Gillette, American Greetings Corp., McDonald's and Nestlé. Jacque Mercer (1949) once told an interviewer: "You could take an orangutan, and, with a year's training, it would be a perfectly adequate Miss America...