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Storz newscasts, which ignore the U.N. for other international bodies, e.g., Anita Ekberg, are aired five minutes before every hour, so that they can catch listeners who switch off other stations' on the-hour announcements. Last week Storz was warming the mikes in Omaha and Minneapolis for "the biggest one-shot giveaway of all time on either radio or TV." The prize: two bank drafts for $105,000, each hidden within a ten-mile radius of Storz's Stations KOHW and WGDY. which will start broadcasting clues next week. (The insurance group underwriting the prize estimates that there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: King of Giveaway | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

...those embarrassing incidents which, whether accidental or calculated, always make surefire headlines, Sweden's voluptuous Cinemactress Anita (Blood Alley) Ekberg writhed her swivel-hipped way across the crowded foyer of a posh London hotel, suddenly found her strapless, skinlike gown at half mast when its key stitches gave way. Reported a lady eyewitness: "Under it was-just Anita." With a pretty display of shocked modesty, Anita repaired to an anteroom for repairs, cooed later: "I like tight dresses, but after this, well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 16, 1956 | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...production complications would have barred him from keeping a singing date in a Las Vegas pleasure dome next week. In Rome, meanwhile, one of Frankie's most voluptuous girl friends tolled a bell for him. Asked if romance had bloomed between her and Sinatra, touring Swedish Cinemactress Anita Ekberg cuddled her puny poodle and cooed coolly: "My only love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 5, 1955 | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

What Did He Have? Frankie's name was linked with a succession of famous women: Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Marilyn Maxwell, Gloria Vanderbilt, Anita Ekberg. One movie queen was said to have flown thousands of miles on several occasions, just to spend a couple of hours with Frankie. On another actress he is said to have rained at least $100,000 worth of gifts in only six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Kid from Hoboken | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

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