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...Steel Pier to his smoothly agreeable, Princeton-educated son, George Jr., 42, and some entertainers are probably thankful that he does. The Old Tumbler has no admiration for the easy somersaults of the Frankie Avalons, the Fabians, the ducktail warblers. "It used to take some body like Sophie Tucker ten years to get her name in lights," he remembers. "Now you're on the marquee if you cut a single record. I just can't take paying these brats $10,000. Goddamit, I used to throw them off the pier...
...MEZGER Lieutenant, (jg.), U.S.N.R. U.S.S. Henry W. Tucker (DDR-875) F.P.O. San Francisco...
...destroyer men get their due? The men of the U.S.S. Henry W. Tucker (DDR-875) are forever reading in TIME about their ship as an anonymous participant in the doings of the Seventh Fleet, of which they (and the rest of Destroyer Squadron Three) are proud to be a permanent part...
Last July the Tucker was one of the ships stationed in the Formosa Strait to guard President Eisenhower's way. We could see Quemoy and hear in the distance the muted thunder of the 88,000-gun salute. In January we were part of the special striking force assembled and deployed from Okinawa on New Year's Day. On Easter day we watched and waited in readiness on the South China...
...hardworking, hard-pressed destroyers, we make our duly appointed rounds like the proverbial postman, and nobody bothers about the postman's name. We would like to be mentioned not as "a destroyer" but as the U.S.S. Henry W. Tucker. Just once...