Word: tuckers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sophie ("Last of the Red-Hot Mamas") Tucker admitted to being a landmark. To the New York Public Library she presented all the personal theatrical scrapbooks of her 43 years of trouping (more than 200 of them, in three trunks and a wicker hamper). They would be filed in the reference rooms as the library's "most comprehensive collection of material on vaudeville and cabaret entertainment...
...Delegate Mary Hall '50 last night announced the appointment of Doris Bernays '51 and Elizabeth Tucker '52 as publicity co-chairman for Radcliffe's NSA chapter...
...flop of the year was Preston Tucker; he spent over $20 million turning out 39 handmade cars, and at year's end was sadly muttering: "All I need is money." If there was a Businessman of the Year it was Automaker Paul G. Hoffman, who left his job as president of Studebaker and climbed into the driver's seat of ECA, the biggest politico-business enterprise in world history. He got it running with a minimum of gear clashing, and Congress found little need for back-seat driving...
Force of Evil, based on Ira Wolfert's novel Tucker's People, takes too long to say too little, and it uses too much high-flown language in dealing with its lowbrow characters. Unable to keep the story alive with dialogue and camera, Director-Scenarist Abraham Polonsky sometimes puts his star on the sound track as narrator. This leads to some confusion: Has the novel been made into a movie, or is it just being read aloud, with a pictorial background...
Even his dealers were about ready to give up on Preston Tucker last week. Said a committee claiming to represent 500 of them: "Preston Tucker is so embroiled in litigation that his services to the [Tucker Corp.] are of doubtful value . . . Under present management there will never be a Tucker automobile in mass production." The dealers wanted to buy out Tucker's controlling interest in the auto company and put in a boss with "a background of successful... experience." Preston Tucker said that he would step down "if it would insure adequate financing to produce automobiles...