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...York bureau, had an economics fellowship at the University of Paris when he took a part-time secretarial job with the Los Angeles Times's Paris office. This led to stringer work for the Times and then for TIME. After Army service he joined our Montreal bureau. Frank Merrick, now in Chicago, succumbed early-after his first summer job as a siren-chasing cub reporter for the Holyoke (Mass.) Transcript-Telegram. In 1968, while reporting for seven New England papers, Merrick became a TIME stringer in New Hampshire. "I got to cover the guy who looked like a sure...
...Just like Ceylon," says Columbia Senior Roy Rosenzweig, a history major, "where 10,000 people went to college and couldn't get jobs." He might have added India, Latin America and Africa. TIME Correspondent Frank Merrick, who recently visited several big Midwestern universities, "was amazed that so many students seemed to be drifting, bewildered by what was happening to them and resentful that no employer seemed to want to hire them...
...streets of every city in the country." Amid tales of urban blight, the U.S. may find solace in the enduring, seemingly endless reach of its fecund farmland. The nation is still sustained by the richest bounty of produce on earth, and it is sowing time again. TIME Correspondent Frank Merrick last week visited Erv Walters' farm in northern Illinois. His report...
Such speeches are mercifully few ?remnants, perhaps, of the play that never was. Follies took shape more than five years ago when nostalgia was a euphemism for camp. In those days it was called The Girls Upstairs, a backstage murder mystery set in melody. Producer David Merrick (Hello, Dolly!) held the first option; he loved the score, loathed the book. The project was jettisoned. One producer later, it ended in the court of Hal Prince, who agreed to produce and direct...
With the kind of cast whose savvy spans a half-century of show business, Prince could do enough of what David Merrick calls "flimflam and legerdemain to cover an awful and gloomy book about nothing at all." Fortunately, the Prince and his Follies have that other talent: Stephen Sondheim. For the musical, he has written some of the glossiest, wittiest lyrics in Broadway history. His melodies gracefully genuflect to Kern and Gershwin, Berlin and Arlen. His words bow to no one. With Follies he has established himself, beyond doubt, as the theater's supreme lyricist...