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CHARLOTTE BALLARD...
...midsummer eve in a Negro-ghetto backyard in Detroit, Diana Ross, then 14, Mary Wilson, 14, and Florence Ballard, 15, made their first profession al appearance. They sang Your Cheat ing Heart, and afterward they passed the hat. The take: "Darn near $3," says Diana's mother. Last week at Manhattan's Copacabana, home range of the big names (Sinatra, Dean Martin), where the big beat is seldom heard, the same rock-'n'-roll trio was doing turn-away business. Diana, Mary and Florence now call themselves the Supremes, and the take...
...voluptuous Misses Wilson and Ballard contented themselves with the gymnastics and their allotted number of "babies" and "oooos," while skinny Miss Ross clutched the travelling mike and knifed her voice through the brassy guitars, the drums, and even the happy steady clapping of the audience. The Supremes are Diana's group. With a sharp, clear voice and an even better stage presence, she would be the center of attention by herself or with a 200-voice chorus...
...million urban-renewal program, handily won his seventh consecutive two-year term, beating his Republican challenger 33,992 to 17,099. - In Akron, home town of G.O.P. National Chairman Ray Bliss, Republicans captured the mayor's office for the first time since 1951. The victor: John S. Ballard, 43, a onetime FBI agent who won his political spurs as a special prosecutor in an Ohio gambling cleanup, went on to make an impressive record as a crime-busting county prosecutor...
...DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ENTIRE WORLD AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF COLE PORTER REVISITED. The distilled wit and pleasant melodies of seldom heard Porte songs are consistently entertaining m this campy revue. Kaye Ballard heads a sprightly cast...