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Clutching his robust, rosy-faced companion by a lapel last week, Baltimore's lame-duck Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. grunted a political watchword through the haze and hubbub of an election-night hotel room. Said Tommy: "Be humble, Harold, be as humble as you can when you say it." Nodding politely, J. (for Joseph) Harold Grady, 42, retrieved his lapel, rushed off to deliver his televised victory statement. Grady had small reason to be humble. Two months earlier, in only his second campaign, he had knocked off wily Three-Termer D'Alesandro for mayor...
Maryland: Colorful, never-defeated Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro, 55, had won 23 elections in a row until he ran for the Senate against colorless, never-defeated Republican Incumbent J. Glenn Beall, 64. D'Alesandro got off to an early lead in the Baltimore returns, but despite the overwhelming victory of Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate J. Millard Tawes, Beall (rhymes with well) ran far enough ahead of D'Alesandro in the counties to cop the victory...
...lackluster Republican Incumbent J. Glenn Beall, 64, is hard pressed. Beall has the support of Baltimore's powerful Sun newspapers, has a quiet person-to-person effectiveness among Maryland's Baltimore-suspicious rural voters. His Democratic opponent, Baltimore's eleven-year Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro, 55, has weathered scandal and long odds to win every one of his 23 campaigns in 32 years of professional politics, has strong city strength and is hanging on the coattails of popular Democratic candidate for Governor Millard Tawes to pull up his back-country margins. Only ticket-splitters can save...
Baltimore's paunchy three-term Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro was punching hard. "I'm gonna bust their skulls wide open!", cried he of his rivals for Maryland's Democratic senatorial nomination. "You can bet on that." The three other principal candidates were punching too. Candidate Clarence D. Long, an economics professor at Johns Hopkins University, accused D'Alesandro (but later retracted and apologized) of having been "an outspoken admirer of Mussolini." Chimed in Candidate James Bruce, business tycoon and onetime (1947-49) U.S. Ambassador to Argentina: "D'Alesandro's tax policy has been...
Heading into next week's election, Old Pro D'Alesandro was gaining on Old Hopeful Mahoney, with Long and Bruce trailing. But the bitterness of the campaign indicated that recent Maryland history might repeat itself when it came time to face Republican Incumbent J. Glenn Beall in November. Although Maryland was long considered a Democratic state, the Democrats have not won a statewide election since 1946, mostly because of the Democratic splits caused by primary free-for-alls...