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...Radio tower at Napeague was flung to earth. Fishing craft were splintered, fishermen's shacks blown to flinders. Refugees huddled marooned in the brick-walled Montauk Manor on high ground. On Long Island's northerly finger the hurricane from the south made shambles of the shipyards of Greenport, unroofed a full movie theatre...
...Carl Y. Matthews of Cleveland used to bathe in Gull Pond, a saltwater inlet near Greenport, L. I. He took his daughter, Irene, 7, all the way from Cleveland not only to visit the scenes of his childhood but to bathe in Gull Pond. He, clothed, stood on the beach and watched her. She waded out until the water was splashing about her middle...
...Follies star, bought a four-year-old 36-ft. cabin cruiser named Chevalmar II. Last week he received insurance papers for it and immediately set out on a fishing cruise with Follies Girls Helen Walsh, Virginia Biddle, Gladys Glad and Miss Glad's husband, Colyumist Mark Hellinger. At Greenport, L. I., where they paused to take aboard 140 gal. of gasoline, the cruiser exploded, casting Captain White, Richman's pilot, onto the pier and spilling Miss Walsh, who was in bed, out beneath a flaming mattress. Richman rushed in through flames which burned him severely, seized Miss Walsh...
...daily port-to-port races as the cruise progressed?Morris Cove to Greenport, Greenport to Montauk, etc. etc.? arch-competitors were the celebrated Vanitie and Resolute, big international cup racers. The Resolute, owned by E. Walter Clarke of Philadelphia, beat Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV, in 1920. Lately, and last week, she has lost consistently to the Vanitie, which Gerald Lambert bought last year from Harry Payne Whitney...
...John Harvard" and "Veritas" are sister ships, 20 feet long, with a five foot beam, and costing $3600 each. They will be used for coaching on week days, the larger boats being reserved for following races in the Basin. The addition of these two Greenport boats brings the Harvard coaching feet to a total of eight launches...