Two unwonted characters moved within President Roosevelt's orbit last week a hard-bitten former Rum Row sea captain and a brash, lanky senior at the University of North Carolina.
The old time rumrunner was Captain Bill ("The Real") McCoy, now living in West Palm Beach, Fla. where he owns an apartment house and builds boats with his brother Ben. He announced last week that in 1934 he had been commissioned by one P. D. Pina Chevalier, an uncle of President Trujillo Molina of the Dominican Republic, to design a $20,000 all-mahogany schooner as a...
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