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of his choosing. He can turn his back on the hard-working doctor who made him rich and never do another “Ben Casey” segment in his life. (As a matter of fact, Vince gives himself another three seasons as Ben Casey, and then he’s through practicing medicine. “I’m interested in maintaining my health and sanity,” he explains.) So what’s his problem? A man in such a fortunate financial position should be happy and grateful. Can it be that money isn’t everything? Said Vince’s friend, “I know, and all his pals know, he’s got a sly humor that’s delightful— when he’s in the right mood. Too bad he isn’t in the right mood oftener — he’s a great guy, actually. But most of the time he only shows a grim, surly face around the studio. A real Ben Casey face. “He’s a self-defeater,” says another chum — who may be hitting the nail on the head more precisely than anyone has yet. “You have to be a self-defeater to keep playing the horses as heavily as Vince does. And he courts danger, too — which is what worries his friends the most. He fools around with motorcycles and fast cars. Sometimes he drives like he’s testing his reflexes on hairpin turns. He waterskis recklessly. He’s got a real yen for physical danger. This business of lifting weights — it’s very dangerous if you slip. Once his foot did slip and brought a 220pound weight crashing down on his back. He was lucky that time — all it gave him was a chronic bad back. But he keeps doing it, and some day he won’t be so lucky. Then maybe he’ll be satisfied. “Look,” the friend said intently, striving to make a point, “trouble doesn’t just happen, you know. There are people who go looking for it till they meet it head-on. Then they holler loud and long. That’s a self-defeater — and that’s what Vince is.” He told how Vince nearly did himself out of the Ben Casey role because of a fascination for racing cars. When Abby Greshler wanted him to audition for the pilot film, he couldn’t find Vince anywhere. He finally hired a private detective to track him down. The detective traced Vince to a Malibu Beach track — cars, not horses — and finally found him there — under a sports car, tinkering with the motor for a friend. The detective hustled him over to James Moser, who was casting “Casey.” And the rest is history. It is no secret that Vince is a heavy bettor at the horse tracks, and always was. Before his Dr. Casey days, this form of gambling kept him broke, and when he was short of cash he’d borrow. Frank Russell, a Hollywood businessman who is suing Vince for $400,000 — claiming Vince kept him from issuing two old Vincent Edwards recordings on which Russell would have made a pile — says, “Vince is casual about money. He must think it’s a privilege to lend him money.” But that’s only one side of the coin. 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