![]() ![]() ![]() “She’s fifteen, and if I’m away overnight, she has to have a sleepover.” Jacqueline washes down the pill with Binaca, a breath freshener she sucks on through the day, and flips through Harper’s Bazaar.īeside her is her husband, Irving Mansfield, né Mandelbaum in Brooklyn, thin, with a small, round face that carries an anxious expression although it is usually smiling. In her baritone voice, Jackie explains she decided to take the early shuttle instead of flying to Washington the night before because of her poodle, Josephine. ![]() “I’m going to take a wakeup pill.” It is uncustomarily early for the Jacqueline Susann $75,000 road show to be under way. The best-selling author, who has made the word “doll” a synonym for pill, opens a small gold box and takes out a pink tablet. Her name, Jacqueline Susann, is a household word her face confronts the American family on the television screen, in magazines, and on the jackets of books seen on beaches, planes, and buses. Her body is covered with Pucci designs of yellow, purple, and pink. ![]() In a front aisle seat, a tall, slender woman stares straight ahead through a mask of makeup-black penciled brows, heavy false lashes, orange lipstick, and a black shoulder-length fall made of Korean hair. shuttle takes off from New York to Washington. White lightning slams across the sky as the Eastern Airlines 8:00 A.M. ![]()
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