Word: louisan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis also had a hidden asset: a man named Raymond Roche Tucker. Fourth-generation St. Louisan Ray Tucker, now 60, was raised on the staid, comfortably middle-class South Side, attended both public and parochial schools, scholarshiped his way through St. Louis University ('17). Set on a teaching career, he went on to Washington University for a B.S. in mechanical engineering, got it in 1920, was rewarded with a post on the engineering faculty...
...Answered the new city editor frostily: "From now on, Harry, it's Mr. Bovard." (From that day on, he was addressed only as "Mr. Bovard.") Austere and coldly impersonal, he stood behind his staff as solidly as he expected them to stand behind their work. When a St. Louisan called to complain about a reporter's story, Bovard cut him off with: "I have never had the pleasure of meeting you. I do know [my reporter...
...eyes popped as I first glanced at the April 28 TIME and spotted Eddie Stanky in a St. Louis Cardinal cap on the cover! As a former St. Louisan and an avid Cardinal fan, I appreciated your fine article on "The Brat" Stanky. Let's hope he'll be the spark that will ignite the gas in the Gashouse...