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...History and Science Department was able to admit 95 percent of its applicants primarily because of a relative abundance of graduate student teaching fellows for next year, Head Tutor Harold J. Cook said yesterday...
Even as they chanted and cheered into the night, the 15,000 excited supporters who crammed into cavernous Donnelley Hall on Chicago's South Side seemed to hold back their full emotions. There was a tentative chorus: "We want Harold!" Then a note of caution from someone in the crowd: "Let's get some damn figures. We may be partying too soon." An aide appeared at the podium around midnight to say the race was too close to call. Some wards were still missing. "If the man don't win, I'm going to hate white...
...When Harold Washington finally appeared to a thunderous ovation in the early hours of the morning, he knew that the task ahead was as daunting as the one just completed. He had beaten the incumbent. He had beaten the heir apparent to the legendary Daley machine. And now he had triumphed in one of the bitterest and most racially divisive political fights in recent American history. But his election had swung a wrecking ball into the political foundation of The City That Works, the patronage-fueled Democratic machine. So with soothing and inspiring words befitting the son of a preacher...
...Harold Washington was already savvy about the byzantine world of Chicago politics: he worked with his father, a Democratic precinct captain, organizing voters on the South Side. He also received an early education in the rigors of competition. While at Du Sable High School, he won the city championship in the 120-yd. high hurdles. At the Civilian Conservation Corps camps, he became a no-nonsense amateur middleweight boxer who won 50 of 60 fights, 15 by knockout. Laughs the mayor-elect today: "I'm a pretty good bare-knuckles fighter...
...politicians are as much a product of their cities as Washington is. Both his grandfather and father were Methodist ministers there. After his parents were divorced, Harold, the youngest of four children in a family in which there were also six stepchildren, was raised by his father Roy, who was a lawyer as well as a minister, and a Democrat in an era when most blacks were Lincoln Republicans. During World War II, Harold did a three-year stint in the Army Air Corps and emerged with sergeant's stripes. He attended Roosevelt College on the G.I. Bill...