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Ruth Elizabeth Collins is a comely girl who went to New York from Concord, Mass, to become a dance band singer. She changed her name to Dale Belmont, borrowing the first name of Flash Gordon's girl friend. At first she had little success. But after a microscope salesman named Joe Bonds became her manager she began wearing sweaters. Engagements at Manhattan's Versailles and Glass Hat followed...
Last week they drove into Concord, N.H., registered at a hotel, and sallied forth to case the town. Giles dropped into a local movie to stare critically at a film entitled The Suspect. Cook wandered out to a tailor shop. But police and FBI men spotted their stolen automobile parked at the curb. They stopped Cook with leveled Tommy guns, relieved him of a bag containing a wad of stolen currency and four stolen pistols. He was apparently too annoyed to say a word. But Giles seemed well rehearsed. When two policemen cornered him in the movie, he grated...
Bolstered by players recruited from the civilian squad, the NROTC hockey team tied St. Paul's School, 4 to 4, Saturday afternoon at Concord, New Hampshire...
Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. '20 of Concord, trustee of the Massachusetts Investors Trust, was elected Chief Marshal to lead the Harvard Alumni at this year's Commencement exercises in a meeting of the Alumni Association directors Saturday. In the same meeting at the Harvard Club of Boston, the Committee on Nominations announced choices of 13 candidates for five vacancies on the Board of Overseers...
Died. George Higgins Moses, 75, caustic, critical Republican Senator (1918 to 1933) from New Hampshire; of coronary thrombosis; in Concord, N.H. A Greek and Latin scholar, thin-lipped, Maine-born Senator Moses specialized in the crushing word. Sample phrases: "sons of the wild jackass" (insurgent Western Senators); "four more years of diminuendo" (on the re-election of Calvin Coolidge). Buried by the 1932 Democratic landslide, he remained thereafter, in his own phrase, "only a nuisance value to the Republican Party...