Margaret Vinci Heldt in 2011 at her apartment in Elmhurst, Illinois, with photo of a model with a "beehive" hairdo from the February 1960 edition of 'Modern Beauty Shop' magazine. For years ...

Margaret Vinci Heldt, who became a hairstyling celebrity after she created the famous beehive hairdo in 1960, has died at age 98. Ahlgrim Funeral Home in the Chicago suburb of Elmhurst said Monday ...

As the 92-year-old retired hairstylist tells it, Modern Beauty Shop magazine (now Modern Salon) was looking for a new design, something different to feature in its February 1960 issue. She came up ...

Margaret Vinci Heldt, now 92, came up with the towering style in 1960 after she was asked ... secretary Joan Holloway, favours a beehive, and has made the hairdo as cool as she has curves.

CHICAGO (AP) — Margaret Vinci Heldt, who became a hairstyling celebrity after she created the famous beehive hairdo in 1960, has died at age 98. Ahlgrim Funeral Home in the Chicago suburb of ...

But it was the almost impossibly tall, cone-like style that looked like a beehive that made her a household name in early 1960. Just think: A hairdresser who finally makes a name for herself via ...

CHICAGO — Margaret Vinci Heldt, who became a hairstyling celebrity after she created the famous beehive hairdo in 1960, has died at age 98. Ahlgrim Funeral Home in the Chicago suburb of ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Margaret Vinci Heldt, who became a hairstyling celebrity after she created the famous beehive hairdo in 1960, has died at age 98. Ahlgrim Funeral Home in the Chicago suburb of ...