Word: tucker
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...Hollywood's Princess Grace rode forth from their palace to a Fourth of July Mass in the local cathedral, later watched a drill put on by the Cadets of the Prince, a boys' cadre sponsored by Rainier's spiritual preceptor and matchmaker, Father Francis Tucker of Wilmington, Del. Meanwhile, palace prattlers reported that Bishop Gilles Barthe of Monaco had been so bold as to ask the Prince if Grace is perchance in a family way. Rainier's careful reply: "Not for the moment...
...garters. Now some of it has snapped out." But lest anyone think that means he isn't going to be around for a long time to come, he grinned and added: "I'm the last of the red-hot poppas in Louisiana politics, just like Sophie Tucker is the last of the red-hot mommas...
Eddie Cantor: "Like Sophie Tucker, he sells yesterday . . . The good old days always seem better than they were...
...wind box" (iron lung) took care of Charlie's breathing and shook his faith in the infallibility of tribal magic. To clinch it, the doctors gave him his tucker (food) intravenously and by stomach tube. Charlie, half-starved, had wandered six days in the bush without food. As he regained some strength, Charlie seemed to regain some will to live...
...heavy-set man (180 Ibs.), Tucker leads as dedicated a life as any tenor. On performance days, he rises at 10, has coffee, juice, perhaps cereal, for breakfast. Around 4 p.m., he has eggs, toast and coffee and then nothing until after the performance, when he eats a sandwich. "The day I sing, I'm a stranger in the house. Talking is hard on the voice, so I don't talk." His three sons know better than to talk to him very much on those days...