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DIED. MARGARET CHASE SMITH, 97, former Republican Senator from Maine; in Skowhegan, Maine. Smith was the first woman to win election to both houses of Congress and the first to be put forward as a presidential candidate at a national political convention (in 1964, when she was swept aside by the Goldwater rush). She showed a prickly independence that often put her at odds with more doctrinaire members of her party. She backed F.D.R.'s New Deal legislation, opposed two of Richard Nixon's Supreme Court nominees and was a withering early critic of her red-hunting colleague Joseph McCarthy...
...work cementing shoes in a factory and rented a two-story house. She worked extra hours to pay her bills and, according to the Washington Post, would arrive home "in jeans and a sweatshirt covered with soot and glue, too tired to change clothes." Shalel Way, a friend in Skowhegan, told the Post that Barbara would complain, "Johnny Walker did this to me." She shared her secret with Way, even asking for a Tarot card reading to help her decide whether to tell the FBI. She claimed that John would get drunk, call her on the phone and brag about...
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...himself, Sproat has illuminated spaces around here with his light sculptures for the last six years. Always avant the garde, and one of the first artists to exhibit at Boston's then new Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), he was back there this past summer as part of "The Skowhegan School, 1946-1976". Summer and "skowhegan" are, sadly, over, but there are still a couple of days to catch the last bright glimmers of Sproat's work. Hurry...