Word: bridgehampton
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...dawn, the little (pop. 1,400) Long Island village of Bridgehampton was noisily abustle. By 6 a.m., ratchety Coopers, purring Allards and roaring Ferraris were already tuning up. By noon, three hours before the start of the big Bridgehampton Cup race, some 35,000 spectators lined the closed-course route. They craned at one of the three killing right-angle turns, or hurried down to the bridge where the cars jumped to a four-wheel takeoff. Some were attracted by the morbid sudden-death aspect of the sport, but mostly they were dedicated sports-car fans...
...Class Day committee also picked Walter M. Aikman of Eliot House and Cazenovia, N.Y., as Class Chorister, W. Lyon Phelps of Eliot House and Bridgehampton, N.Y., as Class Poet, and Donald A. Hall of Eliot House and Hamden, Conn. as Class Odist...
...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 alike. Falling trees crushed the Maidstone Hotel. The Bridgehampton freight station was shunted smack across the tracks...