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RAYMOND R. TUCKER...
...business leaders, alarmed at the city's skid, formed a nonprofit organization called Civic Progress, Inc. It backed Engineer Raymond Roche Tucker, for mayor. Back in the late 1930s, Tucker had come up with a plan to eliminate the city's then notorious smog cover by cutting down the amount of volatile fuel used by industry. He later was named chairman of the department of mechanical engineering at St. Louis' Washington University. Democrat Tucker gave up his $20,000-a-year job for the $10,000-a-year mayor's post...
Recruits for Resurgence. Tucker recruited the city's business leaders to help work on problems ranging from slum clearance to the downtown traffic tangle. To fight blight while bringing the city budget back from the red, Tucker pushed through a $110 million public-improvements bond issue, lured in federal and private capital to help...
...changed little. They still quaff their suds at the rate of 28 gal. per year per person, root for the Cardinals, thrive on sauerbraten, like to remember that their town produced T. S. Eliot as well as Stan Musial, and pronounce Gravois Street as "Gravoy." Men like Mayor Ray Tucker have brought a new awakening. Says he: "This is a warm, stable community. The people here are conservative and cautious. But I have yet to see them fail to respond to a program for civic betterment when it is explained to them...
Against M.I.T., the University of Rhode Island, and Boston College in the Geiger Trophy team races last Sunday, the Crimson finished third. Prince, Guy Garden, Herb Motley, Roger Carney, and Tucker Emmett lost twice to M.I.T. and U.R.I., but won both races against...