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Central New Jersey Home News, August 5, 1985. Melissa Starr as Madonna Tanya Kero as Cyndi Lauper

Fond Du Lac Reporter, August 5, 1967. Thermos Lunch Kits Sale! $1.99 Select from The Monkees, Get Smart, Popeye, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Twiggy, and the new magnetic game school kits. Spinner cars or queens with each kit.

Columbia State, August 5, 1967. A soldier serving in one of the isolated installations writes home: "We're so hungry for the sight of a female out here we even cut out pictures of Twiggy from the magazines for pinups, which is sort of like having dried eggs and powdered milk for breakfast."

Jersey Journal, August 5, 1967. Just Imagine! Twiggibrigida Havering's chief education officer told a conference of physical education specialists, "If Twiggy's teachers had spotted her physical defects and arranged remedial treatment for her, she might now be in the Gina Lollobrigida class."

San Francisco Chronicle, August 5, 1967. A Really Big Show At The Condor Miss Carol Doda Topless Twiggy Diana Dennis Topless Comedienne Sandy Chase Extra Added Attraction The Topless Rockettes And Away We Go

Racine Journal Times, August 5, 1967. Wee Women "I'd rather have you than three Twiggys, dear; that's about the size of it."

Cincinnati Enquirer, August 5, 1967. Cincy's Own Twiggy Cincinnatians don't have to look at all the national magazines and television to see Twiggy. They can just take a gander at Revie Miles, her Queen City look-alike. Revie, who enters Princeton Jr. High this fall, is 98lbs and 5' 5-1/2" tall.

Victoria Times Colonist, August 5, 1967. Twiggy could have grown up to look like Gina Lollobrigida "if her teachers had not spotted her physical defects and arranged remedial treatment," D. H. Wilcockson, chief education officer for Havering, told a conference of physical education specialists.

Glasgow Daily Record, August 5, 1967. Twiggy..."a case of posture deterioration."

Idaho Statesman, August 5, 1967. Among other program changes this fall on Channel 7 will be the abandonment of Star Trek. This has been a science fiction series that displayed so much intelligence, consistency, imagination and originality that somebody decided, naturally, it had to go.

San Antonio Express News, August 2, 1985. Heidi Smetzer and Ty Farris are Madonna and David Lee Roth Look-Alikes

Atlanta Journal, August 1, 1985. Pam Neely, 22, of Jonesboro and fiancee Jay Pfeiffer of Forest Park wait for the Madonna look-alike contest to begin at the Ramada Renaissance last Thursday.

SF Chronicle, August 4, 1967. Bless her old soul, Betty Grable is out. Now, like as not, a pinup has the build of, well, a pin--say, a girl like San Francisco's petite Diana Dennis, the "topless Twiggy" of the Condor Club. A single photo of the mite of a miss brought 7000 letters from GIs.

Valley Times, August 4, 1967. For Helen Gurley Brown, author and editor: Can you explain Twiggy's popularity?—R. D, Glendale, Calif. Why must it be explained? She's cute and exciting. Since people come in all shapes and sizes, a perfectly formed model would be less "typical" than Twiggy.

Buffalo News, August 4, 1967. Star Trek Blasts Off For New Time Slot Star Trek, the science-fiction action series which chronicles the exploits of a spacecraft crew on interplanetary patrol 200 years in the future moves to 8:30 PM Fridays when it soars into its second season in color Sept. 15.

Decatur Daily Review, August 4, 1967. Compromise On Ears Leonard Nimoy, without his pointy Mr. Spock ears, was a recent guest on "Malibu U." He didn't wear his ears because the "Star Trek" costar refused. So a compromise was made. The 14 girls in the chorus wore pointy ears instead.

Washington Daily News, August 4, 1967. ...William Shatner had ringing in his ear for a long time after he was too close to a demolition explosion taking place off camera for a scene in his series, "Star Trek"...

Fresno Bee, August 3, 1967. Gottschalk's Invites You to "making fashion points" McCall Patterns Fashion Show Featured will be McCall's patterns wardrobe...Designed For Twiggy By Seventeen...punchy pantdress and pant suits...swingy minis...zippy coat dresses...great shirt looks...

Coventry Standard, August 3, 1967. Definitely Twiggy influenced is our model Angela Morriss. She works as a receptionist at the Cedars night club, Birmingham, and adores wearing short skirts.

New Orleans Times-Picayune, August 3, 1967. MODEL TWIGGY takes a new turn—romantic as a Gainsborough portrait. The long, covered black dress by Harold Levine gets a flourish of white lace at the throat and sleeves. And the Halston hat a romantic story in itself—is black felt.

Fresno Bee, August 3, 1967. TONIGHT 8:30 P.M. in Color Star Trek starring...William Shatener as U.S.S. Enterprise skipper, Captain James Kirk.

Abilene Reporter-News, August 2, 1967. Fashion Lane's version of Twiggy, Carolyn Sellers, left to right, models an orange short-sleeve sweater dress with a blue ski-slope pattern.

Portland Evening Express, August 1, 1967. Ladies Night at... Scarborough Downs Free Admission No charge at all, not even a service charge. Admission is free to all ladies this Wednesday night; even Twiggy! Scarborough, Maine

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Wilmington Morning New, July 31, 1967. Help Stamp Out The Twiggy Look Bones are out, curves are in! Start looking healthy again with scrumptious breads, pies, cakes and pastries from the 3 Little Bakers

Charlotte News, July 31, 1967. Question Man Do You Consider Twiggy To Be sexy? Question Asked At Cotswold Mall Jenny Nancy: "I think she's cute, but not sexy. The reason she's so popular is that she is unique, a non-conformist. People like things that are different."

Thursday afternoon and once again contemplating the otherworldly beauty of “Bonzo Goes to Bitburg” by the Ramones

One of my favorite genres of Star Trek has always been The Ship Is A Haunted House: "Timescape," "Genesis," "Persistence of Vision," "Macrocosm," "Shattered," (the station-bound) "Distant Voices," et al. Bonus points if a few crewmembers return on a shuttle and have to figure out what went wrong.

Charlotte Observer, July 30, 1985 Trash & Flash Madonna Clones Go For The Cash The $100 Madonna look-alike contest at the teen club Weekends drew a couple hundred enthusiastic fans and eight unabashed contestants, each doing her best to imitate the trashily campy charms of Madonna Louise Ciccone.