Word: kool-aid
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...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...