Word: jess
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going full blast again. Built by the U.S. Government during World War II and shut down after the peace because of its steep operating costs, the plant was reopened last year to help meet the urgent need for heat-resistant nickel alloys for jet engines. According to GSAdministrator Jess Larson, Nicaro's furnaces are "already operating 8% higher in efficiency" than last time, and their output is "rapidly rising towards the projected goal of 30 million pounds a year." This was perhaps overoptimistic: in August, the second month of full production, Nicaro turned out just over...
What is her special talent? TVmen credit Lucille with an unfailing instinct for timing. Producer-Writer Jess Oppenheimer says: "For every word you write in this business, you figure you're lucky to get back 70-80% from a performer. With Lucille, you get back 140%." Broadway's Oscar (South Pacific) Hammerstein II, hailing Lucille's control, calls her a "broad comedienne, but one who never goes over the line." To her manager, Don Sharpe, Lucille is "close to the Chaplin school of comedy-she's got warmth and sympathy, and people believe in her, even...
...Vivian Vance, to play the family next door and serve as foils and friends for Desi and Lucille. Academy Award-winning Karl (The Good Earth) Freund supervises the three cameras, and Director Marc Daniels (soon to be replaced by Bill Asher) gives Lucy its rattling pace. The writers-Jess Oppenheimer, Bill Carroll and Madalyn Pugh-turn out scripts that do not impose too much on the audience's credulity and are reasonably free of cliches. The writers are held in an esteem not common in TV. Lucille bombards Jess Oppenheimer with photographs flatteringly inscribed to "the Bossman," and Desi...
Sole full-time lawyer in the program is Jess N. Dalton of Goodrich, Dalton, and Little in Mexico City. He was the lawyer who, in 1928, got Trotsky's secretary. Sylvia Agleloff, cleared from an "accessory before the fact" charge in the Russian's murder. Dalton used this episode in his public speaking course, but emphasized that this was "only in the line of duty...
...prisoner had been acquitted in a murder trial in the summer of 1950, but he was not freed, because State's Attorney Jess Hunter had said he wanted to file another charge against him. In a Page One story the Tribune pointed out that the charge was never filed. Next day, on order of the state's attorney, the sheriff released his prisoner. Said hard-bitten Tribune Managing Editor V. M. ("Red") Newton, who has as little use for Northern reformers as he does for many politicians: "I guess that will show those damyankees that Southerners do have...