Word: tuckers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Susie Slagle's (Paramount) is a mild, nostalgic little comedy about budding medicos, based on a fictional bestseller by Augusta Tucker. Back about 1910, so the story goes, a maiden lady named Susie Slagle kept a boardinghouse for medical students. She fed them well, jollied them along, nursed their emotional ills, let them draw giant-sized cross sections of hearts, lungs and livers on her upstairs wall. She also gave them a wan goodbye kiss when they went out into the world with their brand-new medical degrees...
...creator of The Timid Soul had done nothing but invent Milquetoast-the quavering quintessence of the Little Man at his least manly-he would have earned his modest place in the nation's pantheon. Harold Tucker Webster has done a great deal besides, in the 15,000-odd panels he has drawn in the past 43 years. Last week Webster's fourth collection of cartoons (Webster Unabridged; McBride; $2) appeared...
With Quarterback Arnold Tucker in the driver's seat, Army's first team is at least as good as last year's. The reserves are nowhere near as strong. That leaves Coach Blaik in the sorry state of the multimillionaire down to a mere eleven million...
...small, oak-paneled room of London's Old Bailey, the chief criminal court in England, Joyce strode to the dock, bowed jerkily to the red-robed presiding justice, Sir Frederick Tucker, and sat down in a straight-backed chair. The charge against him was treason: that he had "adhered to the King's enemies" by broadcasting propaganda from Germany. A clerk asked him how he pleaded. The prisoner's reply rang out: "Not guilty...
...drab jury of ten men and two women retired to consider this point. In 25 minutes they returned a verdict: guilty. A figure in black came to stand beside the presiding justice. Mr. Justice Tucker sentenced William Joyce to be hanged by the neck until he was dead. Then the man in black, a chaplain, intoned "Amen...