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After appearing in relief last year, Curt Tucker will probably gain a starting berth. A right-handed junior, Tucker pitches over the top and relies on his fastball. "All he needs is confidence to be a fine starter," Park said...
...Dorwart and Bob Kalinoski. Harvard's two leading hurlers, have both graduated. Coach Park must begin building a pitching staff around J. C. Nickens, who posted a 4-4 record as a sophomore, and juniors Curt Tucker and Tom DaShiell, neither of whom saw much action last year...
...DAVID TUCKER Squaw Valley, Calif...
...Arkansas' Tucker prison farm, "the Tucker telephone" was a fearsome means of communicating the superintendent's displeasure. It consisted of an old-fashioned crank-phone apparatus that was wired to the genitals and one of the big toes of recalcitrant prisoners. When the crank was spun, the recipient of the message was shocked nearly unconscious. James Bruton, the superintendent who designed and used that device, resigned in 1966 when state officials began a series of investigations of brutality in the Arkansas prisons (TIME, Feb. 9, 1968). Last week Bruton pleaded no contest to charges that he violated prisoners...
...novelty. His Pagliacci included a dusty road, a gnarled tree, a brilliant sunset and a great deal of lively Method movement. Here, if the pace was present, the voices were lacking. Dynamic Soprano Teresa Stratas fell sick and had to be replaced at the last minute. Veteran Tenor Richard Tucker had neither the warmth nor the fire to create dislike in the audience and then transform it into pity. Only Baritone Sherrill Milnes as the deformed Tonio had the strong, rich reserves of voice and tone that can raise Pagliacci from the deadly...