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This month marks the beginning of Howard Fitzpatrick's busy season -- not insofar as his duties as High Sheriff of Middlesex County are concerned but insofar as he owns Fitzpatrick Brothers, Inc., "Banquet Caterers to the Democratic Party." Every winter, testimonial fund-raising dinners are held in honor of aspiring Democratic politicians, and Howard Fitzpatrick is usually hired to provide the food...
Boston School Committee Chairman Thomas S. Eisenstadt, who had his banquet last month in South Boston's Blinstrub's Village, is typical of most of the politicians who will have to resort to fund-raising dinners this year...
...fund-raising dinner was large and successful. The committee of friends which sponsored it used an interesting ploy to insure its success. A week or two before the dinner Eisenstadt sent out invitations to each Boston Public School. The letters revealed that a certain number of places at the banquet had been reserved for school department personnel from that building. The committee explained that it took such steps because it knew that the employees would want to take part in the "wonderful evening of entertainment" planned -- nearly all the tickets were sold...
...candidate likes to think of himself as a loser and most of the minor politicians delude themselves by imagining that their ability to pack a banquet hall is indicative of city-wide support. Likewise they imagine that the intense support and encouragement they receive in their own neighborhoods extends throughout the entire city. Collins must plan on polling poorly in each of the neighborhoods which produces an opponent for him, and, thus, he relies on only a few "safe" districts. But in 1963, the plurality that these districts gave him was enough to secure his renomination...
There was nothing radical in Yovicsin's comments, nor anything which lacked validity. The only question is whether or not he chose the right time to plug the athletic program's aspirations. His comments came before 500 people at the annual football banquet at the Harvard Club of Boston, and created a bit of public sensaiton -- not the kind of publicity which elicits funds, however...