I Don't Think Roy Ever Had a Childhood

As soon as Roy was a teenager, his parents pushed him to attend their parties. According to one of those guests, Roy took naturally to politics socializing and schmoozing like an old veteran. By the 1940s, the family fortunes had recovered and the cones were again at the center of a deeply influential network of New York socialites and politicos. One friend later told an interviewer when he was 16, he was 40.