Approximately 1,000 of Philip Merrill’s friends and family members gathered at one of the largest auditoriums in the city to remember the publisher and former ambassador who is believed to have taken his own life on his sailboat in the Chesapeake Bay.

The atmosphere was one of celebration, not mourning.

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