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EASTON -- Dress well, gain 15 pounds, let your hair grow a little, advertise that you've been a waterman for nine years, know the issues and knock on plenty of doors.That, plus a couple of twists in the byzantine politics of the Eastern Shore's 37th District, was Kenneth D. Schisler's formula for election to the Maryland House of Delegates on Tuesday at the age of 21 years, 3 months and 6 days. He'll be going on 21 1/2 when he takes office in January.No one in memory has been elected a delegate at a younger age. Delegate David B. Shapiro, D-Baltimore, was appointed to the House at 21 years, 3 months and 10 days in 1977, but he was a crusty 22 when he was first elected.

The pharmacist down the street said Ed Blanton can put his latest piece of campaign literature where the sun doesn't shine.Hoping to jump-start his bid to oust Attorney General Joseph Curran on Nov. 6, Republican candidate Blanton mailed out press releases that had a 4-inch-long thermometer taped across one corner."