Word: tucker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). La Boheme, with Kirsten, Tucker...
DEATH OF A MAN (181 pp.)-Lael Tucker Wertenbaker-Random House...
...book is painful and embarrassing on many counts. It asks the reader to share what Lael Tucker Wertenbaker calls her "abstract joy in the quality of his death," after which her "winter-white skin turned quite black and stayed dark for two days." It reports every intimate clinical detail of the pain, distress and hopelessness that afflict the victim of terminal cancer. As such, it tends to force into silence critics who may feel that they have been invited to share a private rite that Lael Tucker created about her dying husband-but who have doubts about its public validity...
Blood & Champagne. Lael Tucker, herself a reporter and novelist (Lament for Four Virgins), has told her story with literary skill, and much of it will hit home to readers who neither knew nor cared about Charlie Wertenbaker-the anxious visits to doctors, the peering at X rays, the struggle to live with the truth, the flight from France, where the Wertenbakers lived, to New York for an exploratory operation, the futilities of hospital routine in the face of a dead certainty. The operation only confirmed the death sentence and, unwilling to live as "less than a whole man," Wertenbaker collected...
...TUCKER'S TOWN, Bermuda, March 22--President Eisenhower has told Prime Minister Macmillan the United States is willing to join the Baghdad Pact's Military Committee in a move to check the spread of communism in the Middle East...