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...called The Amazing Adele. ''There was a 14-piece orchestra and no one to conduct it. I suddenly found myself playing the piano and conducting the orchestra, and I loved it." For the next year she studied under Vladimir Brailowsky, then made the rounds of the summer tent musicals, absorbing both the inevitable gags ("Gee," cracked one cigar-puffing cellist, "you're the first longhair I ever enjoyed working for") and the experience. In three years she handled 20 scores, from Me and Juliet to The King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music Man's Lady | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

Died. Hazza Majali, 44, pro-Western Premier of Jordan for the past 16 months, a tent-dwelling Bedouin chieftain's son and a Syrian University lawyer; in a bomb explosion; in Amman, Jordan (see FOREIGN NEWS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 12, 1960 | 9/12/1960 | See Source »

Elmer Gantry. Burt Lancaster brings Sinclair Lewis' 1927 hero to exuberant lite in Hollywood's gaudy, graphic look at tent-show religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Time Listings, Sep. 5, 1960 | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

...covered in a U.S. labor force of 73 million. To newly covered workers, the bill provides a sliding scale rising from $1 an hour in 1961, without overtime, to $1.25 an hour in 1964, with time-and-a-half after 40 hours. For workers already under the minimum-wage tent, the bill lifts the national minimum to $1.15 in 1961, and another 5? an hour in 1962 and 1963. Among the newcomers: workers in retail or service businesses with annual gross revenue of more than $1,000,000; employees of gas stations grossing $250,000 a year or more; transit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE MINIMUM-WAGE CONTROVERSY | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

Elmer Gantry. In one of his best performances, Burt Lancaster puts the old Sinclair Lewis tent show on the road in a flavorful resurrection of the 1927 novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Aug. 22, 1960 | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

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