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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...
...election in 1967. Since then, city councilors, school committee members, state representatives and other ambitious but minor Boston politicians have been thinking about running for Collins' job. Local political observers are watching closely to see which contenders actually call Howard Fitzpatrick, or his competitor, Stanley Blinstrub, about arranging a fund-raising dinner...
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...
Nevertheless, Eisenstadt's 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...
Formal planning will not begin for "several years," Wiggins said--perhaps as many as eight. He noted that Harvard is now committed to several other expensive higher-priority projects, such as the Cambridge St. underpass, the science fund drive, and the Kennedy Library complex...