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Show vey of the nation's 36,000 coin-opeated laundries and shops shows that managers have found it good business to install lounges, reading material, tv sets, snack bars, and bulletin boards to keep customers amused and congenial while the wash swirls away. Coin-op- s now dish up art shows, shooting galleries, kiddie rides, and beauty-parlo- r equipment for customers and expect to gross $750 climillion from cleanliness-consciou- s ents by the end of 965. r- WHAT IN THE WORLD! 1 By ALLEN GARVIN Spartribs to Sport If the LBJs celebrate their wedding anniversary this week with a barbecue, the chef is sure Jo be Walter Jetton, a 5' 5", Texan who presides over' With up all the President's cook-outto 25 helpers, Jetton thinks nothing 220-poun- d s. Fran Tarklngton Fraa's Secret Play hp , Fans think a is a brisk buzz pro football huddle about the complex- plays, and in most cases this is true. But occasionally the pros sound downright sandlot. In a game with the .Green Boy team last season, Fran Tarkington, quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings.' told his amazed huddle mates: "Everybody scatter; I'll hit one of you." Then he " threw a fourth-dowd pass -which set up qt game-winnin- g field goal! Tho Irrepressible Mrs. Laaghtoa Although she's getting along in years and certainly is in no need of funds, Elsa Lanehester has not been content to retire into seclusion after the Ml I Doomor last-minut- Walt Jetton and Luci of putting together a meal consisting of 200 briskets of beef, 300 barbecued ..freetimebetween a .Manhattan e, . apartment and a large chunk of real estate in Newtown, Conn. Jack of Two Trades Jacfc Lemmon has returned from Moscow carrying a silver prize awarded by a film festival ihere for his flick, "The Great Race." The award is another of many kudos for Lemmon, who is riding high in Hollywood. Instead of ust being One f the most colorful characters of World War II, General George Patton, has never been portrayed in a movie dealing with the conflict in Europe. The main chickens, 600 pounds of spgreribs with hickory sauce, a barrel of . ranch beans, a barrel of chuckwagon potatoes, and 55 gallons of coffee ("so strong it wilt float a M"). Why so much? Says Jetton: "When you holler,- 'soup's on,' there are alin line than it looks." more ways - at Part for Patton - . panist on the show, Dick Hinds, has become her agent and husbgnd. She has done a few roles on the straw-hcircuit during the summer, rides horses for relaxation, and splits her I 44-yar- n, . . Filsa as Frankenstein's a confront. actorL henow produces his own .films bride as well. Lemmon saysi. er b - 1 dent, fortunes" and twcT had "top secret" missions which they refused to discuss. General George Patton reason: the staunch opposition of his widow. But Mrs. Patton died some months ago, and several film companies are now busily writing Patton roles into battle films. Probably the first one to be released will be "Is " Paris Burning?" with Kirk Douglas. Now Social Coattrs Fifty years ago, neighbors used to socialize stove in the around the general store. Today they congregate in the cleanest clubhouses in town: pot-bellie- neighborhood d coin laundries. A sur COVER: v , half-ho- Uawtlcome Visitor This month marks the second anniversary of the Kennedy tragedy, and Secret Service agents still screen a never-endin- g series of kooks who attempt to break into the White 'House on a wide variety of demented missions. A recent survey of psychotic who tried to crash- the White House over a three-yea- r period showed 4 felt they were being followed or persecuted, seven wanted to .help the country, , three brought messages from God, one reported a spy ring around her Pennsylvania farm, three claimed to five came to collect death of her beloved husband Charles Laughton. She still sings, has made night-clutours, and is featured in a current tv comedy series. Her only complaint: "I've done hundreds of stage shows and have dozens of film credits, but what am I remembered for most of all here in Amer- ica? Why, my role in the 'Bride of What Ever Happtatd to Dagmar? step into a bikini and everybody knew she was.the new tex symbol. W1UIAM PrmUtnt Lemmon in "The Great Race" independence gives you a chance to fail on your own. You don't stay awake nights blaming the boss because you're the boss." "This November Newspaper MagaxJne mmd PubUtktr OeVtW Asoeit4 PbKkr . OHOUtKi BnUi Viet FrmU C V. HUSSCY . Fifteen years ago, bosomy Dagmar helped keep tv addicts up into the a.m. by starring in the first of the night-ow- l shows, "Broadway Open House." Ploying a dumb blonde, she stopped viewers cold both with her deadpan deliveries and plunging decolletage. Since then, her accom- - UOMAflO S. DAVIDOW WAITR MTtJCK . Frankenstein. I was shopping at a supermarket the other day and heard a mother point me out to her son as 'the monster's wife.' " Family Weekly She may not be the beat actress in Hollywood, but Ursula Andr'ess (profiled on p.H) hod only to ) . mni Atwtrtmmf , bincivr' Airtinnt Mm0r MMTON RANK Vim Pr-i-dm. Ptblitktt feUttm AtfrwtMng offkw 17f N. MMilga Av, Chicago, III. M0I Editorial aWlcai 403 Part Av. Now Tort, N.T. 10023 Imliwn aHiem 1727. S. rndwM Ave, CMcafl. III. 606U . C IMS. PIOCHSINO ANO BOOKS, INC, CMcoga, IN. 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