Word: tucker
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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...
...Twenty. Engineer Tucker won his academic spurs-and his first crack at public service-by specializing in industrial problems, notably the elimination of St. Louis' then-notorious smog. In the late '303, while serving a stint as smoke commissioner, he drafted and helped fight through to victory the city's model smoke ordinance. (His solution: cut down on the amount of volatile material used in industrial fuel.) Named chairman of Washington University's department of mechanical engineering in 1942, he kept serving political stints, e.g., as head of a freeholder committee that drafted a modern city...
...February 1953 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...
Plunging 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...
...last week's Cavalleria, from the moment Tucker's fervent and sensuous voice sounded offstage in Turiddu's precurtain love song, the audience was his. Dressed in a tinhorn gambler's dark shirt and the cheap Sunday suit of a Sicilian villager, Tucker swaggered about the stage in response to broken pleas from Santuzza (well sung by Veteran Zinka Milanov). He powerfully thundered forth his challenge to Alfio, husband of his mistress, and in the final great aria movingly sang his farewell to his mother, the sure delicacy of his voice topped off by his rough...