In the bustling market house on the docks of Annapolis, Md., radio music wafted over the stacks of fruits and vegetables. "Please release me," the voice wailed. "Let me go. I don't love you any more." A woman at the bakery counter called to a friend in the fruit department: "Oh, they're playing the Governor's song."
Governor Marvin Mandel is the talk of his state—for all the wrong reasons. These days his mouth is clenched more tightly than ever around one of his collection of 400 pipes; he endures the humiliation of being...
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