When H. L. Mencken was slaying dragons with his weekly column in the Baltimore Sun, he seldom spoke well of politicians. But this spring H. C. ("Curley") Byrd, football coach and later president of the University of Maryland, who is running for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, is using a campaign card with a Mencken quote. The card quotes Mencken as having written of Byrd and his performance at the university that "the thing to do with a man of such talents is not to cuss him for doing his job so well; it is much wiser . . ....
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