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With heavy banks of fog rolling in at Hampton Beach and a driving rain damping things down along the Common, many of the Chase gang were at their wits end. But not for long. Very soon after inspection-too soon in the case of certain skivvy clad members encountered by Lt. Town on his rounds, chase went on the chase in force...
Jack Cornwall led a group to Hampton where the low flying clouds were so dense that even the fair indigenes remained hidden. Bunking up three to a single at a local hostel, they returned at eleven hundred on the "L" muttering things about Boston hospitality...
...away. Francis Lee Higginson Jr. of Groton and Harvard, son of a famed Boston banking family, was serving in Key West, Fla. as a Lieut. Commander in the U.S. Navy. The mother who now lay so still and strange on the floor was the former Harriet Beecher Scoville of Hampton, Va., slim, vivacious, 31, a Back Bay Boston belle, great-granddaughter of Henry Ward Beecher...
Heading the list of great families in the music world we find the 29 Eberle boys, the 85 Andrews sisters. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and the three Perry brothers. We are told that the Perry boys under the expert guidance of brother Ray, who left Lionel Hampton in search of a more artistic and original form of music, will soon be right up there on top with Dolly Dawn, Al Dexter, and the rest of the "big time" bands. The fact that they have been booked by the Tic Toc and will open there next week is proof...
Though most of the numbers on the program were Hampton originals, they lacked the musical expressiveness of Ellington compositions and it can only be hoped that Lionel will in the future refrain from the concert stage and remain in the jitterbug dance halls where his music belongs...