Word: jess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nation section, it was another week of exceptional effort. For the third time in four weeks, TIME'S West Coast correspondents found themselves in the middle of a major unexpected news story (the others: Lynette Fromme, Patty Hearst). Under the overall coordination of Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jess Cook, San Francisco Correspondent John Austin talked with local FBI and police sources and also interviewed the only FBI informant to have successfully infiltrated the Weather underground for our story on the California underground. Roland Flamini assembled a portrait of Sara Jane ("Sally") Moore. Christopher Ogden, who was close enough...
...Hearst family and also coordinated bureau coverage. Correspondent John Austin visited the scenes where the arrests were made and also filed a running chronology of events. Stringer Paul Ciotti maintained an almost constant vigil on the street near the scene of the arrests. Los Angeles Bureau Chief Jess Cook grabbed a plane to San Francisco as soon as he heard the news. "You deserve a little luck in this business," he says. "Who should be on the same plane but Catherine Hearst?" As soon as the seat-belt sign went off, Cook conducted a leisurely interview with Patty...
LANGSTON HUGHES created Jess B. Simple in his newspaper column in the Chicago Defender in the 1940's. Posing behind a mantle of slow-witted stubbornness. Simple talks his way through barrooms and street corners, can of beer in hand, fashioning a glittering slice of Harlem life with his words. Hughes was fascinated with Harlem, and in Simple's tales he highlights his dreamy view of Harlem, a city-within-a-city where black culture reigns and black people share their trouble with laughter. Fiercely proud of blackness, Simple mixes an innocent wonder at the strange cruelty of the segregated...
Minnie Johnson (Darlene Johnson), Jess's cousin, leads this world of Harlem night life, cursing, dancing, living on what she can get from her many male friends--"He who lives there must share," Jess says of her apartment. Minnie plays her part to the full, roaring around her apartment in her torn bathrobe, yelling at the neighbors, taking drinks from willing men. She is no match for Jess's wife. Joyce (Tonya Davis), a flat character given little life in this performance Joyce is an ambiguous figure in the Simple stories: a proud member of the Arts and Letters Club...
...skill of John Kirkwood's direction is apparent in the timing, humor and vitality of the show, especially in the bar scenes, when a brilliant supporting cast of Harlem characters continually brings the house down. Don Gillespie as Henry, Minnie's boyfriend; Sary Guinier as Lynn Clarisse, another of Jess's cousins; and Paul Ruffins as Brandon, a drunk in the bar, are particularly fine...