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...Hamburg orthopedist, who viewed with alarm the 17-year-old cockney dowsing rod, opined that "practically everything is wrong with her-she has a humpback, exaggerated curvature of the spine and a hanging abdomen," all leading inevitably to "pains in the loins and the hips." Nothing would help old Twig, he added, except maybe swimming or "crawling around on all fours for ten minutes each morning and evening." Whereupon Mrs. Nell Hornby, Twiggy's mother, spoke up: "What a load of rubbish. You'll not find any girl as healthy as my daughter...
...riddle songs, many of which Beers learned at the knee of his grandfather-onetime champion fiddler of North Freedom, Wis.-who gave him his "concert grand" fiddle with a snake rattle inside ("to make it sound good"). In one demonstration song, Beers carves a whistle out of a twig and then plays a tweeting lullaby; in other numbers, Evelyne beats out a counter rhythm on the fiddle strings with spears of buffalo grass or "fiddlesticks." Many of the songs reflect the lore and rough-hewn poetry of rural America. My Las' Ride Comin' on the Heavenly Train...
...Twig Is Bent...
...Twig or Liver. Bresler and Duddy worked with her for five weeks, including several long sessions at the Persian Room after it closed at 2 a.m. so that "she could absorb the atmosphere." She went through 60 songs while Bresler and Duddy shouted, "Stand up straight! . . . Move your arms! . . ." Choreographer Peter Gennaro was enlisted to check her body movements, and Sound Inc. wired her into the latest in echo chambers. Then, after a break-in week in Columbus, Bobbe, now 20 lbs. lighter, opened last month at the Plaza...
...Ford, Esso, Chesterfield) and are currently working on a musical. But they have never lost their love for nightclubs, especially since they command up to $20,000 for an act. The important thing, as Duddy says, is "being inspired by the personality we work for. Not all people will twig you-excite you. And when there is no fun in show business, it becomes chopped liver." Or baloney...