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Died. Frances Neill Rose Benet, 80, writer-mother of Authors William Rose, Stephen Vincent, Laura Benet; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Amagansett...
...swank Southampton to the east, ranks of expensive cabanas were devoured by the sea, mansions along the dunes buffeted and flooded by titanic waves. Streets, lined with ancient elms that were Southampton's pride, looked like the Argonne of 1918. East Hampton, still further east, and Amagansett, were in worse case. More than four in every ten of their stately elms crashed. The sea rushed up and over the dunes to lash even at the Maidstone Country Club on its high bluff, obliterating the golf course and 50 prize flower gardens. Rich summer colonists and poor fisher folk suffered...
...absolutely essential, hires the best available exercise boys. He believes that every horse has requirements in exercise, food and personal habits different from those of every other horse. He makes a point of discovering and supplying these. One of the most sensational Jacobs horses this summer has been Amagansett, a 6-year-old jumper which Mr. Jacobs got last spring for the nominal price of $1,000 because his owner, Thomas Hitchcock Sr., considered him surly and ill-tempered. Amagansett, who stopped sulking as soon as Trainer Jacobs bought him, has since won eleven races, $11,000 in purses...
...Andrews and James Lippitt Clark, another youngster who later became a crack field man for the Museum, went out to Amagansett where the carcass had been beached. The whalers took the blubber and the scientists bought the rest for $3,200. The skeleton remained imbedded in 50 tons of flesh. The weather was bitter cold...