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...support of a local candidate; by sending students to ring every doorbell he tripled the district's Democratic turnout. Graduating from Columbia University in three years, he worked New Hampshire for Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign, butting heads over budget and turf with another West Side Democrat, Harold Ickes. Twenty-eight years later they're still at it: Ickes, now Clinton's deputy chief of staff for policy and political affairs, uses his control of the campaign purse strings to torment Morris. Eight years older than Morris, Ickes belonged to the Democratic reformers who had taken power...
...When Harold Ickes is having a good rich, wrathful week, probably every man, woman and child in the U.S. is against him. Honest, fearless, tough and shrewd--and loyal to his boss--Harold Ickes long ago earned his post as dog robber to the New Deal. He is the Scout who goes ahead, prowling the unexplored bushes of public opinion. He is the Whipping Boy who takes the blame whenever anything goes wrong. He is the Janitor who sweeps up the floor (usually using some victim as the broom). He is the Public Executioner, the Court Poisoner and the Bouncer...
...DIED. HAROLD C. FOX, 86, Big Band musician and Chicago clothing retailer who was largely responsible for the creation of the wide-shouldered, high-waisted zoot suit, a symbol of the boogie-woogie era; of cancer; in Siesta Key, Florida...
According to Harvard Director of Engineering and Utilities Harold A. Hawkes, the fire was caused by a short circuit in an electrical switch...
...Harold H. Diggs and Jerry Arroyo, police officers with the Harbor Patrol, cruised the river next to the bridge...