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A TT AREETY The Minneapolis Star Friday, March 16, 1979 ME --t Cover girl tries our hockey on for size vlT 1 i I 9f fey Barbara Flanagan I wondered what Tiegs is buying with all of her money. Her contract with the ABC television network is supposed to pay her more than $300,000 a year. "When I made my first big money as a model," she said, "I bought a Mercedes car. That was years ago and I still have it. Now, I don't know.

I may buy another car. "Oh, I like diamonds, but they're not that Important to me." Then she put on a fluffy fox Jacket dyed eggplant purple, yet and went off to meet a bunch of her kind of guys: high school hockey coaches. Well, aren't they intrepid, too? Okay, fellows, put on your intrepid clothes and grab a camera. Cheryl Tiegs likes to keep company with courageous photographers. At the moment, the spot is being filled by Peter Beard, a trim and handsome 41 -year-old with whom she recently filmed a documentary in Kenya.

You'll see it in early April on KSTP-TV. That's why she was in the Twin Cities yesterday. Last night, Tiegs, 30, one of the few models in the business, went to the Minnesota High School Hockey Tournament with Beard, who accompanied her here, and Sun Hubbard, the chief exec of KSTP who happens to be a devoted hockey fan. It was a first in her cosmopolitan life. She told me she had never seen a hockey game except on TV.

I asked Tiegs If she had received any unfriendly mail now that her views on abortion have been printed in the March 19 Issue of Look magazine. Not so far, she said. In an article about the Kenya trip, Tiegs is quoted as saying that "attempts to preserve the elephants of Kenya by leaving them alone are similar to the arguments of the Right to Lifers against abortion. "Letting nature take Its course Is an ideal," she says, but "we can't afford it. There are too many people on earth.

You ave to Interfere." She seemed surprised that anyone might write her. "If they do," she told me, "it means only that they are not educated about the plight of the elephants In Kenya. That's what our documentary hopes to do. "And we know that it's vital to control our world population." Tiegs added that she doesn't preach in favor of abortion, but believes women should have the right to choose whether or not to have one. When we met, I couldn't believe that this 5-foot-10-inch, 120-pound barefoot girl with blue eyes she Just came out of the shower once weighed 155 pounds.

"With two double chins," she said. "To lose it, I put mind over matter, picked out a picture of a good-looking girl In a bikini, and made up my mind I'd diet to look as good." She did and, of course, the rest is money In the bank because the poster of Tiegs in a bikini is a runaway bestseller. If you don't want to be as skinny as Cheryl Tiegs well, call it stunningly curvy here are two new restaurants with dishes designed to fatten you up. The Torsdag Eatery is the name for Bev Bingham's corner of the spacious lobby in St. Paul's Landmark Center.

Bingham, who operates Thursday a Minneapolis catering firm, will serve lunch from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Friday in our twin city. A small Joy Is that she'll be selling half-sandwiches so that if we want to splurge calories on her luscious chocolate walnut cake, we can. And, oh, yes, "Torsdag" means Thursday in Swedish.

Star Photo by Stormi Greener Model Cheryl Tiegs attended hockey tournament last night Tiegs Turn to Page SB aaaaaHnaBaHHB John Carman Set course for Foxy's It's a Caribbean den of pirate look-alikes I 3 if KMSP hires By KARIN WINECAR Minneapolis Star Staff Writer JOST VAN DYKE ISLAND, British Virgin Islands A dingy black Jolly Roger hangs from the roof pole. On the back It reads "rob 'em all, rape 'em all, kill 'em all." And a few of tonight's suntanned and crusty customers look like they'd do Just that. It's Saturday night at Foxy's, a scruffy bar on the island of Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands. Two planks serve as the bar, the floor is white sand, the roof a leaky-looking ancient palm thatch hung with sailing burgees. There are two walls, and the rest of the bar Is open to the sea breeze through the coconut palms and the quiet indigo sky.

There is only one way to Foxy's you must row your dinghy in over the dead reef, beach it and tie it to the mahoe bushes 30 feet from the bar. There are lots of ways back to your boat, depending on how much planter's punch you've taken on. and no plumbing. There Is a tiny customs shack where amid stacks of yellowing forms, a roly-poly islander will sweat onto your snip's papers and authorize a visit to the U.S. Virgin Islands, Just next door.

The village loafs on the sliver of beach in Great Harbor; the rest of the island Is an Impenetrable, arid forest of huge cacti and tamarind trees flashing with hummingbirds. The world's finest white sand beach is just a 15-mlnute hike over the hill Into hauntlngly quiet White Bay. Foxy's raunchy charm Is one of the many reasons the two dozen British Virgin Islands are the charter boat capital of the Caribbean. The British Virgin Islands, Churchill once said, are "presumably as far as possible from the Isle of Man." They lie east and south of Puerto Rico, close enough together so that semiexperienced sailors aren't faced with the open sea. Raunchy charm Twins voice Good news.

KMSP-TV (Channel 9) is hiring a major league broadcaster to handle play-by-play duties for the station's 50-game schedule of Minnesota Twins baseball games. Channel 9 general manager Donald Swartz announced today that Larry Osterman, a 10-year veteran of Detroit Tigers baseball telecasts, will start work on opening day, April 6. Swartz said no decision has been reached yet on a partner for Osterman. The second announcer will be a color commentator. One source said the two front-runners for the Job are KMSP's Dave Sheehan and Bob Kurtz.

Osterman, 42, teamed with a former baseball star, George Kell, to broadcast Tigers games on WJBK-TV in Detroit from 1967 through 1977. After another TV station obtained rights to the Tiger games, Osterman moved to WWJ-AM in Detroit to become a morning sports announcer. He also has been announcing University of Michigan football games. Detroit sources described Osterman as a knowledgeable, low-key announcer apparently similar in style to Herb Carneal, who does radio broadcasts of Twins games on WCCO-AM. "I have a feeling the baseball game is the Important thing," Osterman said by telephone from Detroit.

"I don't flood people with talk, because I think that wears people out. And I've never been a 'we' type, either." Last season, Joe Boyle and Harmon Killebrew broadcast 50 Twins games for WTCN-TV (Channel 11). Midwest Federal Savings and Loan Association, which holds rights to the games, switched to the newly Independent Channel 9 after Channel 1 1 was chosen as an NBC network affiliate. Channel 9 will broadcast 46 away games and four home games. Carman Turn to Page 11B Star Iilufctruttun by Craig Macintosh For the average charter sailor, always being In sight of land makes expert navigational skills unnecessary and a vacation more relaxing.

And the steady east-northeast trade winds mean an easy downwind sail from charter marinas on the main Island of Tor-tola or on Virgin Gorda. Iridescent sea caves They offer superb snorkellng and diving, shell hunting, relentless sunshine, and some good drinking and dining in Virgin Gorda, Tortola and Peter Island restaurants. The native cuisine Is Creole, and grilled clawless lobsters are the prized dish. There is little agriculture in the dry, steep Virgins, however, and the prices for imported food are high. The islands were discovered by Columbus and have a legacy of piracy, slavery and nautical disasters.

The Rhone wreck lies Just off Salt Island (where tourists can make a scuba tour) and the "Treasure Island" of Robert Louis Stevenson is neighboring Norman Island, a steep uninhabited island Foxy's looks like pirates do frequent the place and when the trade winds veer in from a backyard shared by a barbecue and a tired outhouse, it smells like a great number of pirates indeed have been swilling Foxy's Island rum. The salty-haired, barechested and barefoot customers, however, typically turn out to be a chef from Maine, an orthodontist from Chicago, a doctor from Venezuela, a family from Spain; this wide-mouthed bay is one of the most popular anchorages of British Virgin Islands charter boats. From sundown on, Foxy's blasts rock and reggae music into the bay and up the steep hills where goats bleat like crying babies. Often the entertainment other than the motley customers Is live from a tatty band packed under the thatch. But elsewhere in the islands, nothing but leaping dolphins and feeding fish disturb the night.

Like several of the other small British Virgins, there are no cars on Jost Van Dyke, no electricity amusing to them they couldn't swim. Today charterboats can sail to Dead Chest Island In half a day from anywhere In the island chain. Serious nautical accidents occur In the islands, but usually only the boats suffer. Last year more than $150,000 worth of boat (a Gulf star 50) sank after it was sailed over a well-marked reef off Mosquito Island. But there are no sharks, the drinking water is safe, and, if tiny harbor.

On a busy day in the Yacht Club harbor, cheerfully Incompetent charter crews foul each other's anchor lines, lose their dinghies and send sparks from their stern rail barbecues Into neighboring boats. The old ditty "15 men on a dead man's chest, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum" was not quite accurate. When Captain Teach, "Black-beard," marooned 15 of his crew on Dead Chest Island with only a cutlass and a bottle of rum (in sort of an early Outward Bound survival school course) It wasn't very with a sheltering bay and a few ruins and wild cattle left from the 17th century, when pirates controlled the Islands. The big attraction at Norman Island Is rowing or snorkeling into sea caves coated with Iridescent minerals and listening to the booming gargle of the waves "Long John Silver's voice" in the dark Interior. Just a mile to the north of Norman Is Peter bland and the Peter Island Yacht Club, a posh, beautifully designed yacht club built in Norway and reassembled in this Sailing Tarn to Page 4B ECONOMY: UTIUTYs '79 F100 Explorer '79 Fiesta Economy V8, 3 WSW radio, step bumper, 1.6 litre 4 Michelin r7 nd MjtlO.

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