Word: amboy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wandering dazedly through New Jersey's port town of Perth Amboy, Shane O'Neill, 39, son of tormented Playwright Eugene O'Neill, proved to have torments of his own in the ill-starred family tradition. Hauled in by sympathetic cops, unemployed Family Man (four children) O'Neill, twice committed to public hospitals in the past for dope addiction, was carrying on him a large bottle of amphetamine pills, a prescription drug sometimes used by former addicts to curb their craving for stronger fixes. Rapped $55 for not having a narcotics user's identity card...
...Spreading Circle. The treasurer of the South Amboy Trust Co., which Hoffman helped to found and direct and which thrived on state funds, claimed that certificates of a $300,000 state deposit were forged. Apparently Hoffman had embezzled $300,000 in state funds to cover his takings, but that was not all. Governor Meyner suspended four state officials, released 44 pages of detailed charges indicating that the scandal spread far into Jersey politics. Sample charges: ¶ Hoffman deposited $3,427,000 of state money without interest in the Trenton Trust Co., run by his friend and. fellow Republican, Mrs. Mary...
...Year." Born in South Amboy, N.J., the O'Briens decided to go to Seattle in the summer of 1949, when they met Coach Al Brightman, who doubles as Seattle's baseball coach. Scouting a semi-pro baseball tournament in Wichita, Kans., Brightman was taken with hard-hitting Shortstop Johnny (last year's average: .433) and Outfielder Ed (.431) of the South Amboy team.* When Brightman heard that the twins were also good basketball players, he made them a scholarship offer (free tuition and $75 a month for living expenses...
...destructive type. Immediately, it is made clear that Weldy's parents are divorced, his mother holds him on a gold plated leash, and that he has a reputation for jumping any girl he meets. For these reasons Weldy hangs around with a group of suburban Amboy Dukes, whom his mother detests, rather than a young grind called Vernon, whom everybody else detests. Driven to extremes by constant date refusals, Weldy goes out to pick up a girl and ends up with a 30 year-old friend of his mother. What Weldy doesn't know is that there is a delicious...
From a hospital bed in Perth Amboy, bruised and with two broken ribs, Engineer Fitzsimmons talked with the ICC investigators. "I was looking all the time for a yellow light, a yellow light, a yellow light," he chanted with desperate insistency. "That is the custom. One light as you approach. The second light is at the point at which the slow order is effective." Said Fitzsimmons: "Those lights weren't there...