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In his 27 years of The Washingtonian ownership, Merrill made the monthly a force with such popular features as journalists' pay, which periodically was charted in min. One reason for Bill Regardie (publisher of his namesake business magazine) telling The Washington Post (June 13) that the eclectic Merrill was "one of the grand terrors of Washington journalism." Merrill, who also owned the Annapolis (Md.) Capital-Gazette while "moonlighting" as NATO assistant secretary general (early 1990s) and president of the U.S. Export-Import Bank (2002-2005), presumably drowned June 10 while sailing solo in the Chesapeake Bay. Editorial praise came from the usually politically opposite Washington Post (June 14) and Wall Street Journal (June 15).