Word: tucks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans are always ready to slobber ecstatically over anything French? Take, for example, your Dec. 5 article on the new Citroen, which can only laughingly be referred to as an automobile. I have lived in France for two years and have been here constantly since the duckbilled (and humpbacked, tuck-tailed) "Goddess" appeared. "A million Frenchmen can't be wrong," you say? Man, if that many jokers invested in the old six-place family hearse, that represents a heap of idiocy-which will only be exceeded if a million more undiscerning souls buy the 1956-style Flying Sausage...
...Prince's side last week was his good friend and royal chaplain, the Very Rev. J. Francis Tucker ("Father Tuck"), 66, a Delaware-born Roman Catholic priest who went to Monaco five years...
Third-Class Weddings. Father Tuck rose to the occasion. ("The principality didn't get anything from the Marshall Plan but me," he says.) To replace the bickering priests, he imported four members of his own order, the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, sent them bustling about the community. When the bishop died, Father Tuck was influential in the choice of his successor, a French priest who knew and understood the Italo-French people of the Riviera. Father Tuck also abolished first, second-and third-class weddings in favor of an egalitarian, one-class ceremony, and he organized...
Then the busy priest turned his attention to "that boy," the prince. Father Tuck thought that Rainier should get married, and the romance with Gisèle did not seem likely to lead in that direction. One day the Prince took the priest to call on Gisèle. The three spent a pleasant afternoon together. "What do you think of her?" asked Rainier, on the way back to Monte Carlo...
This week, after a look at the Bronx Zoo and a round of parties in Manhattan, Father Tuck and Prince Rainier were off on an eight-week tour that will include an appointment with President Eisenhower, Christmas in Delaware, and introductions to eligible girls from California to Texas (as a 2nd lieutenant in the French army in World War II, Rainier served as a liaison officer with the Texas 36th Infantry Division). Like the Monégasques, Father Tuck fervently hopes that he will be singing a royal nuptial Mass soon, and that Monaco will live happily ever after...