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Word: ostia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Body on the Sand. The story be gan last April, when the body of plump, pretty Wilma Montesi, 21, was found on the seashore sands of Ostia, near Rome, clad only in a blouse and a pair of silk panties embroidered with teddy bears (TIME, Feb. 15). Police declared that Wilma had died by accidental drowning. Months later, brash young neo-Fascist Editor Silvano Muto printed a sensational charge in his monthly magazine Attua-lita. Wilma had not gone to Ostia, he said, but to a swank hunting lodge in nearby Capocotto, where wild orgies were conducted by a Roman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Montesi Affair | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...week. Everyone from right to left and from high to low was far more interested in a burning local question: How did Wilma Montesi die? At first glance, it seemed she must have drowned. An attractive, 21-year-old girl, Wilma Montesi was found dead on the beach at Ostia, Rome's somewhat more elegant version of Coney Island, more than a year ago. The young brickworker who found her skirtless body was momentarily fascinated by the Teddy bears embroidered on her panties, but neither he nor anyone else at the time saw reason to question the official verdict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How Did Wilma Die? | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

...daughter of a famed Milanese attorney and a onetime artist's model who had seen Wilma at orgiastic parties at the St. Hubert Club, an aristocratic shooting lodge located on a game preserve formerly belonging to the royal family. The lodge is 15 miles from the beach at Ostia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How Did Wilma Die? | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

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