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When Carll Tucker bought the august Saturday Review in 1977, he described its typical reader as "somebody's aunt." Unable to attract a younger audience of nieces and nephews, Tucker, 28, sold the ailing magazine last week to Robert I. Weingarten, 38, owner of Financial World (circ. 59,000), an investment magazine. The purchase price was not revealed. Says Tucker, who will stay on as editor of Saturday Review (circ. 500,000): "Going at the speed we were going at, we weren't going to get from here to there...
...Joel M. Weingarten, 24-year-old manager of the Bicycle Workshop in Central Square, said yesterday his newly-created "Bicycle Hotline"--354-7555--will be the only central source of stolen bicycle information in the Boston/Cambridge area...
...bicycle dealer or individual intending to buy a used bicycle can check with the hotline to make certain it isn't stolen," Weingarten said. "Right now, each separate police department or precinct keeps only its own bicycle theft reports, but does not circulate them...
...Weingarten said he will ask local bicycle dealers to keep a log of serial numbers on new bikes sold. The Bicycle Workshop will also imprint free of charge serial numbers on bicycles for owners who can present proof of purchase, he said...
WRETCHED EXCESS (2): Katharine Hepburn's love of herself for finally attending the party after regretting 41 previous annual invitations. Everyone's pleasure in her modest triumph over justifiable nausea quite overwhelmed her reason for being there: to present the Irving Thalberg Award to Producer Lawrence Weingarten...