Word: tuckerman
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...other insiders assert that the auction, while its public garishness might have mortified Jackie, was her idea. Nancy Tuckerman, Jackie's White House social secretary and close friend until the former First Lady's death in May 1994, told Time that "Jackie did mention in her will that the children, if they wanted to, should have an auction. She said that would be the practical thing to do." Tuckerman remembers accompanying Jackie on periodic visits ("she was sentimental about possessions") to storage rooms housing her belongings. "She would say to me, 'I keep thinking about my children with all these...
...remembers Russell H. Peck '43, "there were lots of nice, pleasant, capable, wellborn folks who didn't think it was good to work too hard." These were the "gentlemen," wealthy young men for whom Harvard was simply a pleasant interlude between prep school and prominence. According to Edward M. Tuckerman '43, they were the "party boys." Mentally transported into the world of his youth, Tuckerman slips into the present tense. "They don't work hard, they just go to deb parties," he says wistfully. (Deb parties...
Alumni who graduated in the '40s say that the average grade then was "around a C+." "I never did get a B+," says Tuckerman ruefully. "I was generally in the C department." But by 1966, the mean grade was halfway between a B- and a B. And by 1991, the average grade was slightly above...