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...been living in a Denver veterans mental hospital while his ex-wives and the Government haggle over what money he has left. By contrast, Schmeling-fit, rich and popular-celebrated his 65th birthday last week on his 25-acre estate near Hamburg with his actress-wife Anny Ondra, and was awarded West Germany's Federal Cross of Merit "in recognition of your special services for the nation and people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 12, 1970 | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

Hips, Neck & Knees. In Germany such celebrities as Max Schmeling and his ex-movie actress wife Anny Ondra have posed twirling what the Germans call Swing Reifen, Sport Reifen, Hula Reifen or Hulahupp. A Hanover store increased its sales by offering to deliver well-wrapped hoops after nightfall to childless couples who were too sheepish to carry them home. In Finland there are hula marathons that set contestants to twirling hoops about the hips, neck and knees all at once. In Japan, where some 3.000.000 hoops have been sold, people queued up in Tokyo department stores to buy tickets enabling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRENDS: Hula-la! | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...three hours I stood outside the Carlton and had to watch while he bought flowers for Ondra and invited her for supper. ... I am now going to buy some more sleeping tablets. At least then I will be half dazed. . . . According to Frau Hoffmann ... he now has a substitute for me. Her name is Walküre and she looks it, including her legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Dear Diary | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...busy practicing parachute landings in Pomeranian potato fields, scowling, 35-year-old former World's Champion Max Schmeling turned down the challenge of Vienna's Heinz Lazek to defend his heavyweight championship of the Axis. Declared blonde Anny Ondra, his actress wife: "Max will fight soon-but not in the boxing ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 27, 1941 | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

...broadcast was abruptly cut off immediately after the announcement of the knockout. Cafe and restaurant owners, who had been given special permits to stay open until 6 a.m., wrung their hands as their patrons gloomily filed out three minutes after the broadcast began. Schmeling's wife, pretty Anny Ondra, who is one of the most popular cinemactresses in Germany, sobbed: "It's terrible that punches like that are permitted." Reichsführer Adolf Hitler sent her his condolences and Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels sent flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fireworks | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

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