This underdog run was never his life's mission. Harry, a second-string center at Van Nuys High School, didn't excel at homework and never went to college. Instead, Harry read endlessly while battened down in an Army cryptography bunker in the postwar central Pacific. He went into advertising, worked with a group trying to repeal the federal income tax and sold silver through Swiss banks. He was an expatriate, living in Vancouver, Canada, and then Zurich, Switzerland.
Home now is a Nashville suburb.
Harry had spent much of his adult life scrupulously distancing himself from the political process. He joined the party just six years ago. He didn't even vote for 30 years. The turning point came when his wife, Pamela, found him griping at some candidate on the TV screen. A self-admitted couch potato devoted to classical music and good fiction, Harry threw himself into the political grind.