THE PRESIDENCY: Fishing

Swimming comfortably along near West Caicos Island last week, an obscure 20-lb. barracuda spied something that looked edible. He snapped at it. Ten minutes later, the barracuda was amazed to find himself thrashing about in the bottom of a whale boat confronted by the beaming face of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Over most other U. S. fishermen. Franklin Roosevelt enjoys one notable advantage. Because he is President, people are presumably interested in hearing what he caught. Last week, while the Navy's new light cruiser Philadelphia cruised 2,744 miles to the Lesser Antilles and...

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