Top Model Still Unspoiled Girl-Next-Door (Los Angeles Times - June 26, 1966) "The Swinging Set" was a syndicated column by Sylvie Reice covering teenage interests. There's an interesting mix-up here on the fan mail from a congressman story ('Teen, Dec 1963). I doubt congressmen receive any fan mail. Colleen was soon to turn 19 when this story was printed and was probably about to move out on her own into one of those "high-rent apartments" that we will see her living in in later articles. What's noteworthy about this article is its story of how Colleen became a model, a story repeated nowhere else. Colleen, of course, was already a Ford model at the age of 11, but other aspects of the story may be true. Colleen's movie contract was actually signed back in 1963, but Colleen's dismissal of a movie offer and her comparison of the salaries of top models and starlets may signal the end of her attempts to become an actress, which in fact came to nothing. ($1,300 dollars in 1966 is the equivalent of $8,637 today.)