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...Review, which had hoped to break even four years ago. is now running on an annual budget donated by the SAC in addition to its ad and subscription revenues, James H. Tucker, a law school representative on the SAC, said yesterday...
...there more to love on Lucy than there used to be? No, Actress Lucille Ball, 65, still boasts the same trim figure she had when she first came to Hollywood as a Goldwyn Girl in 1934. But to impersonate Singer Sophie Tucker on Bob Hope's All-Star Tribute to Vaudeville (NBC, March 25), Ball donned a special "fat suit." "I always admired Sophie's elegant arrogance," says Ball, who carefully practiced Tucker's mannerisms and purposeful strut across the stage. But Lucy could not master Sophie's sweeping bow. "When you take a fast...
...Shortly after Carll Tucker, a book and theater critic for the Village Voice, turned 25, his father-in-law, Manhattan Radio Station Owner R. Peter Straus, took him to breakfast to discuss the young man's future employment prospects. Straus brought along Norman Cousins, editor of Saturday Review since he turned 25 in 1940. Cousins "liked the cut of his jib" and last week found something for young Tucker to do: buy and then edit Saturday Review. The price was from $3 million to $6.5 million, depending on various future expenses, and part of the money comes from...
...Yale graduate who has written five unpublished novels, Tucker hopes to enliven the magazine's high-minded mix of essays, reviews and reportage to draw a younger audience. "It's a damn good magazine with a lot of interesting stuff," he says, "but it's always somebody's aunt who reads it. None of my contemporaries do. I only began reading it after that breakfast...
...Marshall Tucker is sold...