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Harvard Yearbook Executive Board; Harvard Yacht Club Executive Board; Radcliffe Sailing Team, Acting Captain Spring '68; North House Committee; Dorm Committee...
Little wonder. By his own testimony, Aunay was a virtuoso in crime, equally gifted as a smuggler, counterfeiter, currency manipulator, drug runner and confidence man. He was once the Riviera's major supplier of tax-free cigarettes, which he brought in from Tangier aboard his chartered yacht. He bootlegged gold coins into Algeria by stuffing them into the innards of frozen chickens, cleaned out the numbered Geneva bank account of a wealthy Casablanca doctor by posing convincingly as his brother. Posing on another occasion as a heroin pusher, he conned two U.S. Narcotics Bureau agents into laying a trap...
...years' experience in tax work, Travancas was a natural choice to head the program. He began by weeding out dishonest tax collectors and setting up special training programs for new recruits. To find Brazil's big spenders, Travancas' agents combed membership lists in race-track and yacht clubs, studied society columns, watched overseas flights and sailings, and compiled lists of the most prominent bankers, industrialists, ranchers and other businessmen in every city. Then the tax men went to work on their returns...
Jeweled Eggs. For all his quirks, Henry had a remarkable eye. Without relying on professional advice, except occasionally from Bernard Berenson, he rambled all over Europe, picking up Italian primitives, Byzantine silver, Renaissance bronzes and Persian ceramics. He sailed into St. Petersburg on his yacht to buy Faberge jeweled eggs...
Harvard Policy Committee, secretary; Senior Associate; Crimson Key, athletics committee chairman; freshman crew; Harvard Yacht Club; N.R.O.T.C., Company Commander, drill team, Naval Science Forum, Sailing Club, Taffrail Club and Midshipman Activities Council; Kirkland House Social Committee; Dorm Crew...