LONGISLANDSOUNDCOLUMBIANow a private island, it was owned by CBS, which named it for the Columbia Broadcasting System, then sold it to two radio stars, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy, who lived
there and broadcast their breakfast chat daily on WOR. Listeners implored them to argue. “We rarely agree,” said Healy, “but lovingly.” The couple called the island Paley’s Pebble, after the CBS founder. A boat came with it, and Hayes used it to break ice for New York Athletic Club rowers. Their radio show hosted boating personalities, such as Morris Weeks Jr.,the editor of ‘Boating Encyclopedia.’ “Everyone of note with an interest in boating eventually finds their way to our show,” Hayes told ‘Motor Boating’ magazine in June 1965.PHOTOGRAPHS MADE IN COLLABORATION WITH DJI AND HASSELBLAD.