Word: mercerizing
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...Duke noticed that the contractor got his business from a small ad in the classified phone book, so the boy took an ad himself, and he clicked. After that he never had to split his fees. Before long he had a house, a car, a wife and a son, Mercer. But his musical friends all moved to New York, where the jazz was hot. Duke followed in 1922, though it meant a fresh start, many penniless months, and a separation from his wife that became permanent...
...unusual as the circular office building, the first of its kind in the world, is its owner-Capitol Records. Fourteen years ago Capitol was a shellac-like gleam in the eyes of three founders (including Blues in the Night Composer Johnny Mercer), who put up a grand total of $10,000. Last year Britain's giant, conservative Electrical & Musical Industries liked the company so much that it paid $8,300,000 for 96.4% of Capitol's stock...
...there are plenty of good songs, many of them turned out by the old and not-so-very-old pros who stick close to Broadway-Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Harold Arlen, Frank Loesser, Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer. But the million-dollar "pops" that feed the gluttony of the nation's 550,000 jukeboxes, slip through the hands of its several thousand disk jockeys, and shake the walls of dormitories and rumpus rooms are written for the most part by little-known men. They are more familiar to the Bureau of Internal Revenue, Income Tax Division, than...
Died. Thomas Mercer Backhouse, 51, officer in charge of the war crimes section in the British Army of the Rhine in World War II, successful prosecutor in 1945 of Joseph ("The Beast of Belsen") Kramer and other Nazi operators of Belsen and Oswiecim concentration camps; of pleurisy; in Nottingham, England...
Republic Steel's Tom Mercer Girdler, 78, militant foe of labor in labor's militant '303, successful boss of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft during the war years, quit his post as Republic's chief executive officer and retired to his Lexington, Ky. horse farm. He remained as board chairman, but the title of chief operating officer and the actual job of running Republic passed to his longtime understudy, Charles M. White...