Word: tucker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Toast of the Town (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Ed Sullivan, with Sophie Tucker...
...certainly could sing. Next came the first act from La Bohème. The scene was a huge, musty attic with four gay blades romping around. The music was very pretty, and it seemed clear that the stocky fellow in an artist's beret named Richard Tucker was making time with Victoria de los Angeles. This kind of thing, thought the young man, should at least put his date in the right mood...
...their Prince's Hemingwayward exploits. Like most European princelings of the present century, Rainier is a connoisseur of fast motorcars and dangerous living. Unlike his largely dispossessed royal counterparts, however, Rainier takes his ruling job seriously. He frequently seeks the advice and aid of wise Father Francis Tucker, his American-born court chaplain, and often drops in for lunch at Tucker's modest rectory. If the autocratic approach seems called for, Rainier can summon that up as well, as a group of Communists found out when they recently tried to hire a hall for a meeting in Monaco...
...week's end Artistic Director Kurt Herbert Adler (successor to the San Francisco Opera's founder, the late Gaetano Merola) had reason to be satisfied with the way his first season was going. With his divas backed by a solid company (including Metropolitan Opera Singers Richard Tucker, Leonard Warren and Lorenzo Alvary), he could be sure of top musical quality for the next six weeks. Adler has another novelty in store for next month: the first U.S. performance in operatic form of Honegger's Joan of Arc at the Stake, with Cinemactress Dorothy McGuire speaking the name...
...assistant residents, 15 medical students) go about their jobs in ordinary street clothes, travel by bus or in their own cars to deliver babies, as one nurse put it, "just about everywhere except in the maternity shop at Marshall Field's." Says tall, greying Dr. Beatrice E. Tucker, who, as Founder De Lee's successor, has been with the center 22 years: "This is the most fascinating neighborhood I know. You are located exactly where you can do the most good...