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June Lockhart has made a change from star to salesman, but she has remained on the same show. She used to be big in the Lassie series, of course, but when a change of format eased her out of the narrative, she simply did a 60-seconder for Kool-Aid, the show's sponsor, and earned $30,000 for it. She also talks to schoolchildren about Crest Toothpaste. This, says her agent, "keeps her mother image intact...
...Kool-Aid & Custer. Jackie Vernon, now working in New York, is so polite, humble and self-effacing that he risks tears instead of laughter. Raised in East Harlem and educated at The Bronx's Theodore Roosevelt High School, he has a mild voice with a sad urban accent, and his heavy-jowled blinking face has a kind of massive resemblance to Jonathan Winters. If it is true that all comedians and clowns are deeply and utterly defeated, then Jackie Vernon manages to suggest that he is the archetype of his tribe...
...look at me, you'd never guess I used to be a dull guy," he says. "My idea of a wild time was Kool-Aid and oatmeal cookies. At parties, I stayed in the room with the coats." Dipping toward the sick, he tells about a friend, the author of What to Do in Case of Peace, who prophesied that on May 1, 1951, the world would come to an end. "For him it did," Vernon remembers. "He was eating in the Automat and the little glass door snapped down and broke his neck. That night in the hospital...
...sinuous as a salamander, the young woman flexed her junior-miss body, tossed her carefully . tousled strato-cumulus hairdo, and took a long drag on a Kool. "I've done lots of lousy films, but I hoped they would be good," she said. "Now I've done two pictures I know are good, and it's affected my whole life. For the first time I come home after work tired but exhilarated, instead of tired and depressed...
...favors slim-cut black skirts with sport blouses or wool cardigans. She uses pink lipstick, paints her fingernails and toenails to match, wears her thick hair usually in a chignon. Her voice is full, throaty and resonant. She speaks fluent French, is less sure of her English, chain-smokes Kool cigarettes in a long, gold holder...