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...earth from the standpoint of the practical well-being of the people" (Westbrook Pegler). The Telly turned its attention (for 21 column inches) to a man in Greenwich Village who had just acquired a 1936 Dodge, reported that "that was indeed Joe Wade you saw bicycling along the Montauk Highway toward Southampton the other day" (Joseph X. Dever), and assured its readers that it is indeed possible for a dog to sing along with Mitch Miller (in answer to a query to Ann Landers...
That morale did not recover until, weeks later, "in one slow, sweet cool of dawn, we saw against the horizon the low, purple silhouette of the hill of Montauk Point, Long Island . . . We heard the hoarse rattle of anchor chain through the hawsepipes. We were home...
Several merchantmen sighted the bedraggled schooner, and came alongside to help, but were driven off by musket fire. Twice the Africans went foraging ashore, while the isolated yeomen of Long Island barricaded themselves behind locked doors. In the end, the Amistad was captured off Montauk Point by the Navy surveying brig Washington...
Friends in New York. The commander of the Washington claimed the slaves and their ship as salvage. So did a retired sea captain, who had palavered a little with Cinqué near Montauk. Ruiz and Montes claimed everything for themselves, and the Spanish government endorsed their claim. President Martin Van Buren made up his mind that the Spaniards had the right...
...improvements Draper might make would be welcomed by case-hardened daily commuters-300,000 of them scattered from Montauk to Manhattan. But some of the jostled and jaded, who have been through Long Island "reorganizations" before, reserved judgment when they heard that Draper might keep resigned Trustee David Smucker as operating manager. Smucker became operating head of the Long Island in 1949, was on the job at the time of both wrecks...