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Harold Brown, Bostons Workforce Housing Pioneer, Dies At 94!
The Comeback Kid
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Even by the standards of a town not known for late-night dining, seemed a little early for dinner.
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So Harold Brown's associates couldn't understand why he was rushing them to order.
At first they thought Brown just wanted to get back to work. “We get the menus and he says, 'Hurry up, we gotta order,'” remembers one of those companions, lawyer Harvey Silverglate.
But it was a nice place near South Station.
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What was the hurry?
“I finally said, 'Harold, why do we have to order so fast?'” Silverglate says.
Brown responded, “The prices go up at 7.”
Harold Brown owned part of that restaurant. He also owned a piece of a movie production company and a clothing boutique, and enough real estate to make him the biggest landlord in the state.
The man who preferred the early-bird special was a multimillionaire. Yet he had only two suits and took home the leftovers.
“It's not that he's cheap or a chiseler,”