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...today's short supply, the best tenor singing is an American. Richard Tucker-stocky (5 ft. 8 in., 185 Ibs.), barrel-chested and plainly middle-aged (47)-was this week commanding the stage of the Metropolitan Opera (in Tosca, with Leontyne Price). Merely scheduling, his appearance promised one of the Met's truly distinguished evenings. The promise lies in Tucker's consistency: other tenors may match him on a given night, but no other tenor maintains his steadily high average of performance (a fact that prompts Tucker to say, with some exaggeration: "I've never given...
...four came to the Met after distinguished triumphs abroad. Tucker arrived in 1945 after several appearances with a small opera company, a feat equivalent to a baseball player's joining the New York Yankees after a couple of weeks of sandlot ball. But Tucker had honed his voice as a member of his synagogue choir on the Lower East Side, later as a cantor (he still forgoes all performances to officiate at services during the fall High Holy Days and the spring Passover...
Results in the freshman matches: 125 lb., Rick Martin of Holworthy over George Pieczenick; 130, Dan Chasan of Wigglesworth West over Doug Connors; 145, John Barr of Thayer North over Bill Beer; 155, Steve Most of Holworthy over Todd Cobey; 165, Jim Tucker of Thayer North over Dave Martin; 175, Ricardo (TKO in the first); unlimited, Bill John-Wilson of Strans South over Jim Brooks son of Grays over Bruce Henderson...
...Richard Martin of Holworthy vs. George Plecxenil of Thayer North; 125 lb., Dan Chasen of Wigglesworth vs. Doug Connors of Pennypacker; 145 lb., John Barr of Thayer North vs. Bill Beer of Matthews North ; 155 lb., Todd Cobey of Matthews North vs. Steve Most of Holworthy; 165 lb., Jim Tucker of Thayer North vs. Dave Martin of Thayer North; 175 lb., Richard Wilson of Straus South vs. Jim Brooke of Mower; unlimited, Bill Johnson of Grays vs. Bruce Henderson of Lionel...
...Time (by Garson Kanin) is the sad, clinically harrowing story of a man who is dying of cancer of the lower bowel, and how he faces it during the last three months of his life in Southern France. The Broadway play is based on Death of a Man, Lael Tucker Wertenbaker's account of her husband's suicide. Charles Christian Wertenbaker was an able journalist (for FORTUNE, LIFE, and TIME from 1931 to 1948) turned novelist. Gift is strangely unmoving and dramatically slack, partly because the audience knows in advance that the hero will die, partly because...