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LONDON, July 5 (UPI) — Famed British model Twiggy says she is excited she finally convinced her 29-year-old daughter to join her in the fashion industry.
The model, whose thin build won her great success during the 1960s, said her daughter Carly will help model her designs for the home shopping company Littlewoods Direct, the Daily Mail reported Friday.
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By Alex Beam Globe Columnist
couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people. The collapse of Starbucks, I mean.
This week the Seattle-based coffee kahuna announced it is closing 600 of its 6,800 US stores and laying off more than 12,000 employees, or “partners” in the company’s New Age-y jargon. The bad news is the culmination of a long, downward spiral. During the past year, the stock has dropped nearly 50 percent, as the allure of high beverage prices and Italianate jargon – what does “venti” mean, anyway? – fades away, along with Americans’ discretionary income.
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The home of spurned Beatle Pete Best has been preserved – that of the man who replaced him faces demolition
Richard Brooks
At the height of Beatlemania, Ringo Starr’s role was famously written off by John Lennon. He wasn’t even the best drummer in the band, let alone the world, joked Lennon.
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Pensioner recalls meeting Fab Four
By Karl Holbrook
A Chorley pensioner has relived the the moment John Lennon carried her loaf of bread.
Even though it’s nearly half a century since the event, great-grandmother Phyllis Hilton has never spoken about the time she saw the Fab Four outside her Chorley Lane home because she didn’t think people would believe her.
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By BILL O’NEILL
HYANNIS — Here are two things no one ever saw at a Beatles concert: Paul McCartney saying “Check out our Web site,” and audience members waving their cell phones in the air.
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The packaging of the re-masters:
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