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...David Merrick recently took his annual physical examination at Boston's Lahey Clinic, and his friends may be relieved to learn that he does not have a long red pointy tail. In other respects, however, David is a devil of a fellow...
...smooth surface of a protected lake. It is simple, straightforward stuff: slamming headlong through the open ocean in anything from a souped-up outboard to a PT boat-until your ribs rattle and your face is white with salt. It is madness, of course. But as Ohio Millionaire Merrick Lewis, 41, explained on the eve of last week's Sam Griffith Memorial Race from Miami to Bimini and back: "Once in a while, you have to force yourself into doing something that petrifies you. If you don't, pretty soon you turn into a chunk of Jell...
...David Merrick, curiously, did not complain. He even said that Kauffmann could attend all the Merrick rehearsals and previews he wished. That was fine, so long as Merrick did not have a play ready. Last week, however, he had. A few days before the opening of Philadelphia, Here I Come! (see THEATER), Merrick sent two preview passes to Kauffmann. Attached was an ominous note: "Dear Mr. Kauffmann: At your peril. Sincerely, David Merrick...
Sure enough, when Kauffmann arrived at the theater with 1,100 other ticket holders, he found a dark marquee and a sign that read TONIGHT'S PERFORMANCE CANCELED. Was this an ambush, calculated to embarrass the Times's critic? No, Merrick's press-agent explained: a generator was out of order. That seemed funny: although the marquee was blacked out, the lobby lights were blazing...
Next day it was all fixed. Kauffmann played first-nightsville along with his colleagues. The premiere came off and so did Kauffmann's hour review (a murky pan). And when Merrick was pressed about the electrical troubles of the night before, he said, straight-faced: "A rat got in the generator." Positively, Mr. Merrick? Absolutely...