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PERSONALITIES: McGovern's Henry the K

High among the time-honored privileges of campaign fund-raisers is the chance to bask in the reflected glory of a successful candidate. Even so, on the night of George McGovern's nomination in Miami Beach, his national finance chairman, Henry Kimelman, seemed to be doing much more than mere basking. With his arm wrapped around McGovern's wife Eleanor, Kimelman flashed enough winning smiles and V signs at the TV cameras to have been the candidate himself. Gary Grant, with whom the darkly handsome Kimelman has occasionally been compared, might call the scene one in...

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