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Simon met the great love of his life, Joan Baim, at a Poconos resort called Tamiment in June 1953. He was a writer on the entertainment staff, making $20 a week. She was a dancer working as a counselor in the children's camp. Three months later they were married. Says Simon: "I knew immediately she was the girl for me. She was very beautiful, very athletic, very warm. She had very definite ideas, she was very vehement in her own scenario, but she was very supportive. She stopped working?which I think she probably regretted later?and gave herself...
...Camp Tamiment in the Poconos, Neil and Danny Simon wrote a revue each week for two seasons, and for the first time reveled in the feel of live audiences. Danny soon took off for Hollywood. But Doc stayed behind, bitten by those immediate theatrical laughs. Too security-minded to abandon TV, he went on writing for it-some 40 episodes of Sergeant Bilko, a year and a half with Garry Moore. But he used his nights and weekends to write Come Blow Your Horn. Then, with $250,000 rolling in from Hollywood for the movie rights to Blow Your Horn...
...Will Travel." Survivors of Newport are also expected this summer in the eucalyptus-fringed Hollywood Bowl (the First Annual Los Angeles Jazz Festival), New York City's Randall's Island (the Randall's Island Jazz Festival), the Michigan State Fair Grounds (Michigan State Jazz Festival) and Tamiment-in-the-Poconos (the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival...
...make the guests happy," said the entertainment director at Camp Tamiment in the Poconos, and young Jerry Robbins did-as a borscht-belt dancer. Jerry (whose real name was Rabinowitz) wanted to be a chemist, but his immigrant father was toughing it out in the corset business in Weehawken, N.J., and Jerry had to take what jobs he could find...
...Senators Robert Alphonso Taft and Joseph Hurst Ball had sound advice to give labor's annual social and economic conference at Camp Tamiment. Its essence: let organized labor recognize that the will of the majority of U.S. citizens is for legislation to improve the pattern of labor relations; therefore let organized labor itself help write its ticket, bring forth its own program, help in drafting acceptable measures...