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...competition for graduate students, Alfred David 4G won $400 in Group I, Humanities. In Group II, Social Studies, $400 was awarded to Alan E. Heimert 5G and to Albert V. Tucker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Announces Nine Bowdoin Prizes For English Essays | 5/28/1957 | See Source »

...Stilly Night. Near Kevil, Ky., lightning split and hurled the headboard of their bed across the room, scorched the mattress and bed linen, awakened but did not injure Harvey Tucker and his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 29, 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, with Milanov and Tucker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Program Preview, Apr. 15, 1957 | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...February 1953 Independent Democrat Tucker was approached by a couple of friends with an unattractive proposition. They wanted him to give up his comfortable $20,000-a-year income and run for mayor-at $10,000 a year, plus the use of a chauffeur-driven Lincoln sedan. Said his wife Edythe: "Ray went through a change of life or something. He decided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of the Blues | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

Plunging into the Democratic primary with the St. Louis press behind him, Tucker beat down the solid opposition of the regular Democrats, triumphed over the machine candidate by a slim (1,500 votes) majority. A month later, with a solid phalanx of G.O.P. and Democratic friends and businessmen behind him, Ray Tucker beat his Republican opponent and became St. Louis' 38th mayor in a stunning (142,839-82,000) landslide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of the Blues | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

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