Samuel Hopkins Adams, SAMUEL H. ADAMS 87, Author, Dies in SC Noted Author Enj oys BEAUFORT (AP) Sam- luel Hopkins Adams, 87, author and "It Happened One Night"; "The His Yisits In State journalist, died parly Sunday al Harvey Girls"; "Banner by the Cl\. £>i>*. «P«t. © New York State career as Hamilton College corre best seller. and the Nelson C. Hydes of Pine- spondent for the New York Trib He completed a novel "The Ten hurst, he is forming the habit ot during the opening of the Erie une when he was 16. derloin," which is to be published | stopping to spend a few days en Canal. He was the son of Myron Ad in the spring of 1959. He also was route between his home in Au "When I finished," he said, ams, a Congregational minister, writing a novelette at the time ol burn. N. Y.. and Beaufort, S. C., "I bad that wonderful feeling of and Hester Rose Hopkins. He left ©That is the best that I can his death. He wrote in longhand. where he winters. do1 ." the severe classicism of his en He is survived by two daugh Now 84 years old. forced to use vironment to live in New York ters. Mrs. Cecil C. Adell of Red a cane to get around, the author [City©s Tenderloin and report the Bank, N. J., and Hester Hopkins of "It Happened One Night" ana He didn©t get the feeling withl gaudy events of the time. Adams, Hartsdale, N. Y., and a "The Harvey Girls" continues to "Alexander WooIIcott" because. A profound love of his craft was stepdaughter, Mrs. Atherton Har- (enliven the scene with his a biography, the subject| among the most marked quali lan, New York City. and wit. and is alertly interested;eludes full coverage. ©I found out ties of Adams. | in all that goes on around him. so much Iater- he said- ©that l Motion pictures were made from Recently he was guest of honor wished I had put in." 17 of his novels. They included which usually i Most of his novcls deal witn tne "Flaming Youth," a best seller of tat several parties wound up in song .©American past, richly documented! the time, which was written under "Singing together is a fine thing. Wlt" regional language and lore. the pseudonym Werner Fabian, as Only one. "Revelry," a tale of were several of his other works. land we don©t do enough of it," commented the author. Washington and politics published Adams became a formidable in 1926, concerned itself with the figure in journalism early in the century. His Collier©s magazine "After all," he added, "we contemporary scene this despite© series of health articles was large- 1 ©* T%i can©t let television take the place a background of newspapering with I |ly responsible for the pure food of everything." the old New York Sun, and maga i and drug law. zine editing (McClure©s). Funeral services will be held One place he hadn©t seen before His love of history continues to [from St. Helena©s Episcopal was the Southern Pines Library, flower today, in books for young [church in Beaufort Tuesday at 4 i George H. fBud> Leonard Jr., who people. With this, he says, he is p. m. The body will be cremated ©is president of the Library Associ "well content." He has done three land the ashes buried at Auburn. ation, saw to it that he made a books tor the Landmark Series, A memorial sen-ice is planned H; special trip. and is proud that his "Pony Ex the New York town next sprinq. press," published in 1950, is the| Adam.s had hern in very poo; "What a homelike place!" was series© all-time leader in sales. health since he arrived at his win his comment as he entered. He ter home. He was accompanied was especially pleased to find -his from A ubu rn by two pri va t ^ new book. "Grandfather Stories," nurses. NOVEMBER 17, 19.>8, a Book-of-thc-Month selection on No members of the Adams fam- prominent display. E C E M B E R 19 ©ily were with him when he died. Statr He was for years one of the | Several survivors are expected to most versatile and prolific ot arrive Monday. American writers turning out hun The writer had made Beaufort, dreds of short .stories and articles, a coastal South Carolina resort numerous romantic novels, movies town, his winter home for 23 years. I which made cinema history and a He received his bachelor of arts biography. "Alexander WooIIcott: (degree from Hamilton College.© His Life and Times." which won Clinton, N. Y., in 1891, and was© probably the highest critical ©awarded an honorary doctor of ac letters degree in 1926. © claim of all his works. From 1891-1900 Adams was a re-; Underlie pen name Wareer Fa- | porter and special writer lor the New York Sun. He was managing i editor of McClure©s syndicate dur- jing 1900 and 1901. During 1901-1902 [he was advertising manager of McClure, Phillips & Co., publish- |ers, and was a McClure©s maga-1 zine staff member Irom 1903 to 1 1905. In 1898, Adams married Eliza beth R. Noyes. This marriage i ended in divorce. In 1915, he and actress Jane Peyton Van Norman (were married. The first Mrs. Adams died last year. His second wife died in 1946. One of Adams© best selling (novels was "Revelry," a fictional recapitulation of the Waren G. Warding era and the attendant Teapot Dome scandals involving Harding©s administration. His works include "The Mys tery," with Stewart Edward White; "The Great American Fraud"; "Little Miss Grouch"; "The PI T©S Fee"; "The Flagrant Years"