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...line to be spoken by David Merrick, the most consistently successful producer on Broadway. For something over a decade, Merrick. now 49, has thrown himself with glee into the passionate pursuit of two goals-turning out shows and making enemies. There is no reliable head-count of the showman's enemies, but Merrick has had 20 shows on Broadway since 1954, and 15 of them qualify as hits. No other producer, including Mike Todd, Flo Ziegfeld or the Shuberts, ever approached this record in a similar period of time...
...Back Brooks. A lot of people on Broadway or in the press would gladly slap Merrick's face without fee. Sad-eyed, baby-complexioned, with a well-trimmed mustache and an equally well-trimmed smile, Merrick dotes on the acrimony that has earned him the nickname, The Abominable Showman (he says he hates the tag, but wears it like a five-carat stickpin). He keeps the feuds alive by spraying insults like flu germs. Of competing Producer Roger Stevens, he says: "I deliberately bid on bad plays, hoping he'll buy them. He'll hear...
...Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill, by Don Russell. The bearded old bisonbane was a showman, but he was also a notable frontiersman, and this biography does a good job of sorting the facts from the flamdoodle...
...Russell. The bearded old bison-bane was a showman, but he was also a notable frontiersman, and this biography does a good job of sorting the facts from the flamdoodle...
...though it were a bronco in full buck, McGuire baits officials ("I must hold the Carolina record for technical fouls"), indicates uncontrollable wrath by rising ominously from his seat and taking off his coat. Behind him, as if on signal, Abbey rooters stand to doff theirs in sympathy. Showman McGuire has also outraged basketball purists by offering to buy every spectator an ice-cream bar if Abbey lost-it did, but the ice cream was donated free by a manufacturer-and by insisting that there are "no secrets to basketball any more except recruiting." Says he: "Give me a seven...