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...does not collect his thoughts but wool-gathers them, that an old man's legs do not walk but must be lifted, that an old man's hands twitch vagrantly like an infant's in sleep, that an old man's eyes sometimes glow like blown embers and sometimes fade out as swiftly and secretly as dusk. Yet within this fraying husk of age, the man from Hannibal stands vibrantly whole, incorrigibly acute, a genius of uncommon sense...
Fanny-or Bust. The David Merrick who arrived in New York in 1939 looked like the last man in the world who would ever conquer Broadway. Shy and alarmingly thin, he had a bleeding ulcer and shed "a faint greenish glow." But he was shrewd, and he decided to case the joint before he tried to take it over. One day he called on Producer-Director Herman Shumlin and invested $5,000 in The Male Animal. Merrick made $18,000 on the deal, and by watching rehearsals and eavesdropping on conferences he also accumulated valuable experience. Six years later, after...
...someone offers me a good part that doesn't depress me." Helen already had the offer. Next day she reported that, at 65, she is beginning a new career as a repertory player with Manhattan's Association of Producing Artists-Phoenix troupe. "It has brought back the glow to my cheeks," raved Helen. "I'm thrilled at the prospect of the sort of plays that I love-plays of substance and hope." The first hopeful part: doing Walt Whitman's "mother-image" next season in We Comrades Three, a drama based on the poet...
...Mans. And maybe, as some Ferrari fans insisted, old Enzo had only sent his "second team" to Daytona. But for the first time ever, a U.S. car had won a 24-hour endurance race. Even Luigi Chinetti, the Ferrari team manager and a naturalized American, felt a certain glow. "I am happy for my country," he said...
...darkened room, the high command of the battle staff sits wordlessly behind orange consoles. Faces reflect an eerie glow from flickering television screens and panels of lighted buttons...