Word: tuckers
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Died. Richard Tucker, 60, Metropolitan Opera tenor since 1945; of a heart attack while on tour; in Kalamazoo, Mich, (see MUSIC...
...hope you're not looking for glamour," Richard Tucker once warned a reporter, "because I'm just not the glamorous type." Short, squat and built like a football lineman, Tucker hardly suggested Rodolfo. Not that it mattered. A ringing, luminous sound, fueled by Tucker's majestic belief in both music and the voice he felt that God had given him, was embellishment enough for the legions of operagoers who came year after year to hear Verdi and Puccini melt in his mouth...
Last week, on the eve of his 30th anniversary with New York's Metropolitan Opera, Tucker at 60 collapsed and died of a heart attack in Kalamazoo, Mich., where that night he had been scheduled to sing a joint recital with his friend, Baritone Robert Merrill. Among Met tenors only Giovanni Martinelli outlasted Tucker, with 32 seasons...
Nearly every seat was taken at Tucker's funeral, held on the Met stage. The only previous funerals in the Met (in its old, Diamond Horseshoe home before the move to Lincoln Center) were those of Conductor Leopold Damrosch 90 years ago and General Manager Heinrich Conried 66 years...
...sugar prices. Since January, the store price of a 5-lb. bag of sugar has rocketed from 900 to $3.45; wholesale sugar prices have been raised seven times in the past six weeks. Consumers have tried to strike back by organizing sporadic regional boycotts, and last week Carol Tucker Foreman, executive director of the Consumer Federation of America, which claims 30 million members, announced plans for a nationwide boycott from Dec. 1 to 10. Even some grocery chains are urging shoppers to buy substitutes rather than sugar...