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Occupational Hazard. In Baltimore, when zoo officials brought in a new gorilla to meet Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro, he stopped them short: "Don't let him near me-I mean it. Since I've been mayor of Baltimore, I've been bitten by a snake, clawed by a lion cub and kicked by a camel. . . Let's buy him and get him out of here...
This week, with a correct, quiet pride befitting the occasion, Alex. Brown & Sons held an open house to celebrate its 150th anniversary as the oldest name in U.S. investment banking. Baltimore's Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. and hundreds of other civic leaders dropped by to pay their respects and look over the ship models and old company records on display. They could thank Alex. Brown & Sons for much of the growth of Baltimore and Maryland. It had helped finance the first major U.S. railroad (the Baltimore & Ohio) and most of Maryland's bridges, including...
...York honeymoon, Mr. & Mrs. David Fromal of Newport News, Va. parked their car in the wrong place in Baltimore, were held up for four days and had their car impounded because Fromal had forgotten the registration card. To make amends, Baltimore's Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro gave them the key to the city, paid their fine, saw that they got their car back. The Baltimore News-Post wined & dined them, gave them theater tickets. The Fromals decided to finish their honeymoon in Baltimore...
...Congressional Candidate John W. Benson was defeated in Maryland's Third District after offering to kiss every girl who would vote for him. The winner: Incumbent Thomas 0. D'Alesandro, who offered the voters spaghetti dinners...
...Ding and Dong in their race for Democratic nomination to the House for a Baltimore district last fortnight were bald-headed Representative Vincent L. Palmisano, 55, and black-thatched Thomas d'Alesandro, 35. Mr. Palmisano last week looked like the loser by perhaps 50 votes out of 25,000. As much interested in the outcome as Baltimoreans were residents of the District of Columbia. For as chairman of the House District of Columbia Committee since last April, Mr. Palmisano has been "Mayor of Washington." District of Columbians have been agitating for years, lately with vigor, for the right...