Mrs. Smith Hangs Out: Margaret Chase Smith,...

Mrs. Smith Hangs Out: Margaret Chase Smith, the former U.S. Senator and congresswoman who turned 92 last month and was hospitalized briefly in November, must be OK now: She was clinging to the back of a speeding snowmobile in Canaan, Me., last weekend. In her snowmobile suit, she withstood 15-degree temperatures to ride with members of Smokey’s Angels, a local snowmobile club. “I feel fine,” said Smith, a longtime Republican. “I wouldn’t be going snowmobiling if I didn’t.”

First Hug: Barbara Bush’s motherly manner makes her the most huggable person in the country, according to the people who proclaimed Sunday National Hugging Day. Kevin Zaborney of Detroit, who began the Jan. 21 hugging day tradition five years ago, said the First Lady topped a list that included Bill Cosby, talk show host Arsenio Hall, Cher and Tom Selleck. Cher was a surprise for the top five. “Obviously, a lot of men nominated her,” Zaborney said.

Ross and Roger: Despite his run-ins with General Motors Corp. after GM bought his Electronic Data Systems, Dallas billionaire H. Ross Perot did not revel in the stinging criticism GM Chairman Roger Smith receives in the movie “Roger & Me.” After seeing the film, which documents the impact of GM layoffs on Flint, Mich., Perot told the Dallas Times Herald: “I get no sense of comfort in foreseeing what is happening to GM.”

Mrs. Ray Speaks: James Earl Ray’s wife condemned the Ku Klux Klan for holding a Jan. 13 march on behalf of her husband in Lawrenceburg, Tenn. Anna S. Ray, who doesn’t believe her husband killed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis in 1968, says the white supremacy march was an endorsement of murder. “The person who shot Martin Luther King Jr. committed an act of cowardice,” she said. “That doesn’t solve anything.”