An Academy Award went to the film's theme music, composed by Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

The British light troops ' volley went high which gave time for Mercer to wheel his troops around into battle line.

Later in the year Mercer, Bill Morgan, Bill Ralston and Whit Matthews went back to the WlFU meetings.

Shortly before Ellington went on his second European tour with his orchestra, from March to May 1939, Ellington announced to his sister Ruth and son Mercer Ellington, that Strayhorn " is staying with us.

Also in 2003, Mercer went to Afghanistan to visit the Canadian troops stationed there ( See: Operation Athena ), resulting in the television special Christmas in Kabul.

These telecasts were, in the beginning, seen in only a few markets and were hosted at various times by Gene Goodson, Steve Harms, and Marc Lowrance ; when the show was taken over in 1982 by Continental Productions ( a subsidiary of local station KXTX ) and went to international syndication, well-known north Texas journalist / sportscaster Bill Mercer ( a former play-by-play announcer for the Dallas Cowboys, Texas Rangers and Chicago White Sox along with other Texas-based teams ) became the ringside announcer at the Sportatorium.

At age 12 she began attending Mercer Primary School and then went on to attend Mangere Bridge School and Melmerly College in Parnell.

Mercer went on to win an FA Cup winner's medal in 1950 and was voted FWA Footballer of the Year the same year.

Two seasons later Mercer led Manchester City to the 1968 First Division championship, and went on to win the FA Cup ( 1969 ), League Cup ( 1970 ), and European Cup Winners ' Cup ( 1970 ).

Both points were ridiculed by CBC satirist Rick Mercer who sponsored an online contest that went on to name Atchison " Canada's Craziest Mayor.

Jeanne Moreau was considered for the role of the domineering headmistress Martha Farnsworth, but in the end the role went to acclaimed Broadway actress Geraldine Page, and actresses Elizabeth Hartman, Jo Ann Harris, Darlene Carr, Mae Mercer, and Pamelyn Ferdin were cast in supporting roles.

Born in Lafayette, Georgia to Reverend Jesse Mercer Dodd and Effie Cook Dodd ( the artist Lamar Dodd was his first cousin ), Ed Dodd went to work for Dan Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America, at the age of 16.

When Mercer wrote " Blues in the Night ", I went over his lyric and I started to hum it over his desk.

Instead, Arlen and Mercer went right over.

The night his wife went into labour with their child, Mercer made one last effort at therapy ; He introduced Gurney to a patient who also believed himself to be Christ, or, as the patient put it, " the God of electricity ," who would subject an unwitting Gurney to electroshock therapy.

Mercer then went on tours of India and Ceylon without doing anything spectacular, and in 1927 when pitches were almost always soft and wet ( often so much so as to be really easy for batting ) he did not do as well as expected until late in the season.

Damiani was ahead on points but went down after a Mercer left uppercut broke his nose, and he was counted out by the referee in the 9th round.

Though they would produce some very memorable and lasting songs, Arlen and Mercer were not given strong material to work on.

both were obviously on the way to the Mercer home.

When the family business failed, Mercer left school and on his mother's urging -- for she hoped that he would become an actor -- he joined a local little theater group.

But Mercer hung on, living, after a fashion, in a Greenwich Village fourth-flight walk-up.

He had yet to meet Harold Arlen, for although they had `` collaborated '' on `` Satan's Li'l Lamb '', Mercer and Harburg had worked from a lead sheet the composer had furnished them.

While Arlen and Mercer collaborated on Hot Nocturne, Mercer worked also with Arthur Schwartz on another film, Navy Blues.

Mercer saw the sun rise on occasion, closed his eyes briefly, and opened them to see stars shining.

When Mercer looked on helplessly, the half-man twisted over on his side, his pink dusty back turned to Mercer, and wept hoarsely and quietly to himself.

When he said it, they thought it exceedingly profound, though none of them understood it, since it was simply the amount of time that Mercer had been on Shayol:

Howard, bought him a Mercer race car and Hawks began racing and working on his new car during the summer vacation in California.

In this same period, on the initiative of the Virginian politician Charles F. Mercer and the Presbyterian minister Robert Finley from New Jersey, in 1816 the American Colonization Society ( ACS ) was established in Washington D. C. by American politicians, senators and religious leaders from a variety of orientations.

* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.

The origins of New York's punk rock scene can be traced back to such sources as late 1960s trash culture and an early 1970s underground rock movement centered on the Mercer Arts Center in Greenwich Village, where the New York Dolls performed.

The main Earth religion is Mercerism, in which Empathy Boxes link simultaneous users into a collective consciousness based on the suffering of Wilbur Mercer, a man who takes an endless walk up a mountain while stones are thrown at him, the pain of which the users share.

The Modern Lovers continued to be a popular live attraction, and on New Year ’ s Eve 1972 supported the New York Dolls at the Mercer Arts Center on a bill which also included Suicide and Wayne County.

* Asa Shinn Mercer travels from Seattle to the U. S. East Coast and recruits 11 Mercer Girls, potential wives for men on the West Coast.

Mercer Human Resource Consulting issues yearly a global ranking of the world's most livable cities based on 39 key quality-of-life issues.

Arlen is one of the few ( possibly the only ) composer Mercer has been able to work with so closely, for they held their meetings in Arlen's study.

Miller told Tormé to pick up every song by Mercer and study it and to become a voracious reader of anything he could find, because " all good lyric writers are great readers.

This is based on a wildlife study that found Mercer had the highest concentration of common loons in the world.

Frith's study for his last major work, The Private View, 1881, is in the Mercer Art Gallery.

This study was jointly conducted by Business Today, Mercer and Taylor Nelson Sofres ( TNS )

Mercer is the only university of its size in the United States that offers programs in eleven diversified fields of study: liberal arts, business, education, music, engineering, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, law, theology, and continuing and professional studies.

The Ecological Society awarded Odum its Mercer Award to recognize his contributions to the study of the coral reef on Eniwetok Atoll.

When that band broke up, Mercer joined Ani DiFranco's band and moved to NYC to study double bass with Orin Obrien and Michael Moore.

A Mercer Consulting study indicated that the percentage of employer-sponsored health plans offering disease management programs grew to 58 % in 2003, up from 41 % in 2002.

After he is caught, and facing time in solitary confinement, Tess Mercer visits Schott in jail and gives him the Kryptonite-powered heart to study which Zod and his men created to power Metallo in previous episodes.

* James E. Tull and Morris Ashcraft, High-church Baptists in the South: The Origin, Nature, and Influence of Landmarkism, Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2000-revised, condensed and updated version of Tull's 1960 classic study of the movement