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Died. Dr. Francis Le Roy Satterlee, 54, U. S. pioneer in x-ray photography and research, inventor of many a radio reception device; of heart disease and x-ray burns for which he had undergone 44 skin-grafting operations and amputations; in Montauk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 16, 1935 | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

...island, Drama-critic Percy Hammond managed to telephone in from East Hampton that he had eaten his last can of salmon. Just north of him, at Montauk Point, the heavy seas ripped half of the New London ferry dock away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Carbon Copy of 1888 | 3/5/1934 | See Source »

...York City; Joseph L. Valentine '98 of Chicago, Illinois, banker and former president of the Associated Harvard Clubs; Samuel Cabot '06, of Boston, manufacturing chemist; George S. Franklin '02, of New York City, lawyer; Charles E. Perkins '04, of Santa Barbara, California, former railroad official; Harrison Tweed '07, of Montauk, New York, lawyer; Francis A. Harding '09, of Chestnut Hill, manufacturer; Sinclair Weeks '14, of Newton, Mayor of Newton; Robert Cutler '16, of Brookline, lawyer; George S. Franklin '02, of New York City, lawyer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CANDIDATES FOR BOARD OF OVERSEERS CHOSEN | 1/10/1934 | See Source »

Chained up for five years outside the Hunter's Inn on Montauk Highway near Brookhaven, L. I. have been two black bears called Cup and Saucer. Their master, Gardner Murdock, is a grizzled oldtimer, gruff but kindly, locally famed as a duck-shooters' guide on Great South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Cup & Saucer | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

...generations before sunburned bankers and brokers appeared upon the high seas off the New Jersey coast. Block Island and Montauk Point armed with expensive rods & reels, Atlantic market fishermen had been familiar with a hard-headed sea monster with a silver belly, blue-bronze back and corrugated spine. They called him "horse mackerel and cursed him when, bulking 200 to 800 lb. with the power and speed of a steam engine, he barged into their pound nets and tore them up. Rod & reel fishermen taught the commercial men to call the monster by his right name, tuna. "With their sporting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Adventure off Ambrose | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

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