Word: raying
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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...
...Independent Democrat Tucker was approached by a couple of friends with an unattractive proposition. They wanted him to give up his comfortable $20,000-a-year income and run for mayor-at $10,000 a year, plus the use of a chauffeur-driven Lincoln sedan. Said his wife Edythe: "Ray went through a change of life or something. He decided...
...into the Democratic primary with the St. Louis press behind him, Tucker beat down the solid opposition of the regular Democrats, triumphed over the machine candidate by a slim (1,500 votes) majority. A month later, with a solid phalanx of G.O.P. and Democratic friends and businessmen behind him, Ray Tucker beat his Republican opponent and became St. Louis' 38th mayor in a stunning (142,839-82,000) landslide...
...that as it may, Elvis Presley's records were reported to be the nonsocialist-realist craze in Leningrad and elsewhere. Disks, bootlegged from U.S. records and cut on discarded hospital X-ray plates, sell for 50 rubles...
...subject matter in less skilled hands could become sloppy and sentimental. The Brave One completely escapes these pitfalls, handling the boy-and-animal-against-the-wicked-world theme most touchingly. Michael Ray is completely fetching as the youth and he is supported by a most competent cast. The air and spirit of the bullring is handled freshly and dramatically, as is an absolutely chilling battle between the black bull and a cougar...