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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...
With a slender volume of 27 verses, titled Love Poems (World; $2.50) and dedicated cryptically to "S* and the search," sometime Actress-Artist Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowska, 31, officially blossomed as a sometime (i.e., printed) poetess. Sample titles from her "diary of feelings": my heart is a wild wave, Snow tenderly in city dawn, honey bees in our eaves, happiness a wing ding . . . is. Excerpts: "he kissed me through a glass closed window /I ... tried to remember as the glass shattered / that this was freedom instead of death"; "the heart is a circle / shaped like a cross . . . / a mold of lava...
...aegis of the Hessian radio station in West Germany, put on no airs as he graciously received the applause of his listeners. Main reason for his refraining from his customary theatricality: white-maned Conductor Stokowski, 73, also renowned as the estranged husband of Actress-Painter-Poetess Millionheiress Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowska, 31, had banned all pictures of the concert, was unaware that a camera had fixed its evil eye upon...
...McPartland & Co. Since then, the Metropole has parlayed its music and saloonlike atmosphere into one of Manhattan's most successful jazz slots. The clientele is as mixed as a parade crowd: servicemen, college kids, tourists, jazz fans, a few unattached girls, and some times such celebrities as Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowska and Crooner Eddie Fisher...
...Manhattan publishing firm announced that its September list will include a "tender, searching" volume titled Love Poems. The poetess: Heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, 31, whose first published work follows her renown as amateur artist, professional actress (The Time of Your Life-TIME, Jan. 31), and the estranged wife of mellowing (73) Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Explaining the poetry's origin, Gloria's publisher said: "She filled her diary with poetry-her own poignant expression of a mood, the lonely torture of young love, the ecstasy of fulfillment-all intensely personal." No advance peeks at the verses were permitted, but Gloria...