Word: amagansett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Habit. In Amagansett, N.Y., Alan Vass. charged with burglary when police found 79 pairs of women's shoes (all sizes 5 to 6) in his attic and garage, was ready with his explanation: "My wife once said she liked that kind. I got started taking them and couldn't stop...
...trial's first week came the first official admission of a story long circulated in Washington and New York: that a Coast Guardsman had surprised the four saboteurs who landed on Long Island's Amagansett Beach; that, after they tried to bribe him into silence, he gave the alarm which put the FBI on the saboteurs' trail. The Coast Guardsman, young, dimpled Coxswain Jack Culley, (see cut) told his story at the trial...
...beach where the four men landed was a stretch of sand half-hidden by high grass and the low rolling dunes of Long Island's south shore, near Amagansett. They worked fast, dug a hole, gingerly buried a number of wooden boxes unloaded from their boat, finally buried the collapsible rubber boat itself, covered everything with sand. Then they headed swiftly for New York...
Died. Frances Neill Rose Benet, 80, writer-mother of Authors William Rose, Stephen Vincent, Laura Benet; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Amagansett...