Word: jessel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strain to hear. His song in the schoolroom is a weird blending of dewy innocence and dark corruption. Carolyn Stouffer, Mrs. Grose the housekeeper, tends to be shrill, and her diction is sometimes muddy, in contrast to the rest of the cast. Carlotte Wilsen, as the ghostly Miss Jessel can be both terrifying, when she calls to Flora, and tragic, in her beautiful schoolroom song...
Labor Handicaps. Locally the omens for a Labor victory seemed far from bright. The Conservative candidate, a dynamic business executive named Toby Jessel, 31, ran a hard-hitting campaign, hopping over hedges to pump housewives' hands and playing on the themes nearest to their hearts-chiefly rising prices and taxes. By contrast, Labor's Kevin McNamara, also 31, seemed colorless and retiring, limited his campaign pitch mainly to a call for loyalty to Wilson and the defense of government policies. Moreover, to add to Labor's troubles, a red-bearded left-wing journalist named Richard Gott...
...GEORGE JESSEL Los Angeles...
...Near the end of his 45-minute farewell, the old union dragon who lost his job by a narrow 95 votes in a recent election glanced up at a portrait of himself on the wall, sniffed tentatively and dissolved into tears on the ever-ready shoulder of Toastmaster George Jessel. Jessel, whose tear threshold is lower still, joined sympathetically in the sobs: "I can stand to see a woman cry-that can be fixed by a new fur coat...
Cried George Jessel: "It's the most beautiful place of its kind...