Word: tuckers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well. It is the one outfit in which so many of Baker's business associates are linked together. These include men like the glib Fred Black, under indictment for income tax evasion and, until he was fired last week, a top lobbyist paid by North American; Ernest Tucker, with whom Baker shares a Washington law office, and who has his finger in several Baker pies; Edward Levinson, the Las Vegas operator, and the mysterious Miamian, Benny Sigelbaum...
Last September Hill filed a $300,000 damage suit against Baker, Ernest C. Tucker, Baker's Washington law office associate, and Fred Black Jr., a Baker buddy who, like Baker, is a big Serv-U stockholder. Hill's suit, with the publicity it generated, was the pin that popped Baker's soaring balloon. In the suit Hill charged that Baker negotiated to get Capitol's machines into Melpar, then demanded a monthly kickback. Hill said he paid Baker $5,600 over 16 months. He also charged that when Baker wanted Hill to sell out to Serv...
...JOAN Y. TUCKER Kenmore...
Hardly anyone could believe that carefully curried Cary Grant had turned 60. But not even Sophie Tucker could believe that she was 80. After a one-candle-cake celebration during her annual birthday engagement at New Orleans' Roosevelt Hotel, she took issue with her reported octogenarian status. "I'm 76," protested the very last of the red-hot mamas. "I'll tell you why the statistics are mixed up. I was 16 when I first went to New York, and the law was you couldn't work in a cabaret until you were...
Raucous, sentimental, funny and bawdy, 49-year-old Tessie O'Shea is-as an admirer has described her in a dressing-room telegram-"a divine whiff of the Palladium." As the Sophie Tucker of British vaudeville, she is as familiar as a pint of mild in every corner of the United Kingdom, but she has never before appeared in the U.S. Her family was part of the Irish wave that settled in Cardiff and built its docks, but by the time she was born her father had solidly established himself in the newspaper-distribution business. She was "a little...