February 7, 1989 Table Of Contents
Cover
Here's a portfolio of six new covers featuring your SI models in swimsuit venues of the past
Memories
Impish Babette March put on that white bikini and launched an institution
By Franz Lidz
Sue Peterson got something better than a cover from her SI swimsuit shoot
It seems that way for Sunny Bippus, whose name reflects her outlook
Marilyn Tindall Percival conquered shyness by entering beauty contests
By Ron Fimrite
That's the way Turia Mau Payot describes her idyllic existence in Tahiti
By Kenny Moore
Jamee Becker Guilbert now stays busy as a working mother in France
So what if Cheryl Tiegs is 41. She looks terrific and is doing just great
Multidimensional Tannia Rubiano Hecht has never had it so good
Modest Sheila Roscoe still doesn't understand how she ever got to be a model
By Jaime Diaz
Dayle Haddon's glance could melt glaciers
By Ralph Wiley
Ann Simonton fights for feminist issues—and against the SI swimsuit issue
By Jill Lieber
Yvette and Yvonne Sylvander have a rapport that is unique to identical twins
By Bruce Newman
Homemaker Lena Kansbod wants to get back to modeling
Did Maria Jo√£o use the occult to make the SI cover?
By John Maier
That's Christie Brinkley after three SI covers and marriage to singer Billy Joel
By Bruce Newman
Carol Alt is tired of being just a pretty face. She wants to be a movie star
Paulina Porizkova is a woman who likes to say exactly what she thinks
By Douglas S. Looney
Supermodel Elle Macpherson can't understand what it is that others see in her
By E.M. Swift
For some collegians, swimsuit photographs are the last word in dorm decor
By Bruce Newman
C'mon in, the water's fine along Mexico's Pacific Coast—and so are the swimsuits
After a 12-day sampling of the many, mostly sensual pleasures of Mexico's Pacific Coast, the author tells you pretty much all you need to know about this languorous littoral
By Rick Reilly
Point After
How a Roman Gabriel fan lost his innocence
By Rick Reilly
Departments
Through the centuries, swimsuits have gone from the ridiculous to the sublime, with a few strange stops in between
By William Oscar Johnson
SI's swimsuit issue was created 25 years ago to fill a midwinter sports gap
By Frank Deford
Our master at combining models with swimsuits and scenery
By Frank Deford