Word: skow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within limits, designs vary as widely as money and imagination can make them, and woe betide the skipper of a skow...
...Maggie. Feminine she is, but not frivolous. Daughter of a barber in Skowhegan, Margaret Madeline Chase never went to college, clerked in a dime store for 100 an hour, worked on a newspaper, taught school, filled in as a night switchboard operator for the phone company. Her husband Clyde, Skow-hegan's first Republican selectman, won 48 straight elections in his lifetime, got elected to Congress in 1936. He died four years later, and Maggie took his place, winning a crashing 25,000-vote victory in the 1940 election. She has been winning ever since, is now serving...
...page 81, TIME Book Critic John Skow pays an affectionate parting tribute to a member of our craft, the late James Thurber. Thurber appeared on TIME'S cover on July 9, 1951. By then his eyesight was far gone, and he had almost ceased doing any more drawing. But he obligingly availed himself of a large sheet of black paper (he could only see sharp contrasts), and with a piece of chalk drew the self-portrait that is reproduced here, along with several of his famous dogs...
...Jack Skow is to be highly commended, on the whole, for a job admirably well done despite the unfortunate misnomer of "scatologer" in reference to Holden Caulfield. The kid practically tells you that he's talking to you like you were some goddam long-lost buddy or something, and naturally he's not going to sound like he was talking to those nuns...
...Jack Skow claims that Seymour's suicide was "wrong" and senseless because "saints may be martyred, but they do not shoot themselves...