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...Lynn Capehart...
There were bad moments. The Senate let Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy terrorize the country too long before censure. The likes of Indiana's Homer Capehart and Nebraska's Carl Curtis fumbled and bumbled...
...banker, John Marlan Poindexter grew up in Odon, Ind. (pop. 1,400), described by Richard Poindexter as a "very conservative, Bible-belt community." A thin, shy and bookish child, Poindexter was an exemplary student who won appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy from the late Republican Senator Homer Capehart. Poindexter's mother Ellen recalls that the Senator once sat in the family's living room on a Sunday afternoon and told John that "he hadn't had very good luck with boys from Daviess County." That statement, she believes, was "part of the reason why John wanted...
...York City Ballet: "The Great Saratoga Chaconne; The Diamonds of Saturday Night Closing Weekend." There is a witty tribute to groupies called "Ballet Alert," about the New York telephone service that tells fans of last-minute program and cast switches. The service, run by a voluble woman named Carmel Capehart, depends on information from inner circles of ballet lovers. Capehart's biggest scoop: "Baryshnikov's debut in Union Jack [in 1979 with N.Y.C.B.] He did it twice in one day without telling anybody. If we hadn't caught wind of it, nobody would have been there...
DIED. Homer Capehart, 82, three-term Republican Senator from Indiana (1945-63); from complications following a hip fracture; in Indianapolis. The son of a tenant farmer, Capehart made a fortune selling jukebox equipment and got into politics after organizing a 1938 "cornfield convention" of 20,000 Republicans. As Senator, he supported farm subsidies and helped establish the Small Business Administration. An enthusiastic McCarthyite, Capehart staked his 1962 senatorial campaign on a tough anti-Cuba stand ("invade or blockade") and lost narrowly to young Birch Bayh when President Kennedy's embargo of Cuba took away his thunder...