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...flying Democrats politicked at a national level last week, local leaders attending the Chicago convention were also busy with their own problems. A TIME correspondent, prowling a hotel lobby, overheard this conversation between Baltimore's broad and boisterous Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro and another Maryland delegate. Subject: Millard Tydings, hand-picked last spring to battle Republican John Marshall Butler for his old Senate seat, since hospitalized with a serious attack of shingles...
...Wilhite, who was a key manager in U.S. Senator James Oliver Eastland's campaign, to help Stevenson's cause; they gave wide circulation to a newspaper editorial that branded Kefauver as a "leftwing integrationist" and a "sycophant" for the Negro vote. As Florida's ex-Governor Millard Caldwell put it with some approval, they sold Stevenson as a "more conservative person than Senator Kefauver...
Although Maryland's Millard E. Tydings, making a comeback try for his old Senate seat (24 years, 1926-50), defeated George P. Mahoney by a narrow 6,000 votes in the state's tightest senatorial primary (TIME, May 21), Mahoney won more state convention delegates. Last week, when convention time came in Baltimore, the Mahoneyites with relish and in grim retribution slashed Tydings' backers to ribbons...
...Plant City last week Stevenson drew an audience of only 120; in Tampa only 350. At a major rally in St. Petersburg, he was introduced by one of his candidates for delegate, former Governor Millard Caldwell, who made it clear to newsmen that he could hardly care less. Said Caldwell: "Stevenson is not the most satisfactory candidate from my standpoint or Florida's standpoint, but he is the strongest possible Democratic candidate...
...Maryland, Democrat Millard E. Tydings, 66, began a comeback by edging out George P. Mahoney in the closest senatorial primary in Maryland history. He will face John Marshall Butler, who in 1950 knocked Tydings out of the Senate seat he had held for 24 years...