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According to Miss Gilmore, the Hare System is more accurate than the point system, which was introduced by Elizabeth Tucker '52 several years ago, and used for the past three years. Confusion which resulted from use of the point system frequently made several recounts necessary, and last year resulted in widely differing figures after each count...
William Ashton Tucker, of New York and Bozman, Md., started as a clerk with the J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp. in 1924, is now a vice president. Married, one daughter. He's not sure which way he will vote...
...lanky young (32) Donald Eastvold, a former state senator who is his party's candidate for attorney general. Eastvold asserted that the convention was its own supreme court in party matters, and both the 1944 and 1948 Republican Conventions had recognized Georgia delegations led by W. Roscoe Tucker, who now headed the pro-Eisenhower group. Nevertheless, the Taftmen, by a vote of 30 to 21, recommended that the pro-Taft faction be seated at the convention...
Serious Turn. Alas, Rector Barbee is by no means equal to the chase. He flees to a parish in Montana, and with Barbee gone, Lament for Four Virgins turns pretty serious. Author Tucker traces the careers of her four girls into middle age-Angela into a late, dreary marriage, Ellen Terra into sloppy promiscuity, Hope into money and dipsomania, and crippled Carrie into a solid romance with her doctor. The post-Barbee era is readable enough, but it lacks the spirit of the old days...
...Novelist Tucker and her publishers should do all right, anyhow. Seven years ago, before leaving for a long stay in Europe, she drew a modest, $250 advance from Random House. Nine months ago, Lael Tucker (wife of Novelist-TIME, Oct. 16, 1950-Charles Christian Wertenbaker) turned in Lament for Four Virgins. After a close look, Random House not only decided to publish it but sold reprint rights, in advance of publication, to Bantam Books for $35,000-a Bantam record for a first novel...