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...SUGAR! David Merrick's gone and made Some Like It Hot into a musical and boy is it a dud. Now in pre-Broadway tryouts. Sugar has been on the road for over two months, trying to get up enough guts to show its face in New York. But by the looks of things Wednesday night, even if this show took a forty-year detour by way of the Sinai Desert it still wouldn't know where to go next...
...appears to be directed. (For, as women, Morse and Roberts are costumed in particularly doughty fashion and their god-how-my-girdle's-killing-me routines seemed to meet with favorable response mostly on the part of the audience's ladies who lunch.) In fact, it seems to me Merrick's only got two choices--he can either close the damn thing out of town, or he can bring it into New York and play it on a six-matinee-a-week schedule. In either case, no matter how much effort goes into salvaging the show, this is one case...
...Quakers contributed seven of the team's 12 members. Heading the majority contingent is freshman Dave Merrick, the individual Heptagonal champion. Making the squad for the second straight year are Penn's Karl Thornton, Bob Childs and Julio Piazza...
Penn's top runners are Karl Thornton. Dennis Fikes, Dave Merrick and Bob Childs. Against Harvard at Van Cortland on October 2, they crossed the finish line in a dead heat. Penn won its last IC4A title...
After four miles, little had changed. Koerner, the only Harvard man in the top 20, had fallen back to ninth, and Merrick had opened a lead of 100 yards over Thornton and Ritson. At the last, Ritson outkicked Thornton for second, but Merrick held on to win the race in 24:31.8, breaking Doug Hardin's meet record by more than three seconds. Thornton, Childs, Piazza and Fikes swept third through sixth places, and Koerner placed tenth, assuring himself of a berth on the All-Ivy squad. But the next Harvard men were far back--Quirk (23rd), Fred Linsk (35th...