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BLACK AND BLUE. Tony winner Ruth Brown seemed irreplaceable as the comic heft of this gorgeous Broadway review, but LaVern Baker (also heard on the Dick Tracy score) gets the same laughs and is, if anything, torchier. In other regards this celebration of blues song and tap dance is better than ever: the all-black cast has infused a newfound Harlem funk into the Busby Berkeleyesque glamour...
AHMET ERTEGUN, president of Atlantic Records. Turkish-born, self-made sultan of American rock, soul and pop. Age 48. In 1948 founded Atlantic on a shoestring and a collection of 25,000 old blues 78s. In 1950s brought in Brother Nesuhi and their friend Jerry Wexler, signed Ray Charles, LaVern Baker, the Modern Jazz Quartet and "Boss of the Blues" Joe Turner. In the 1960s, his firm introduced Sonny and Cher, more recently Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and Roberta Flack as well as rock groups like Led Zeppelin and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Also hired young singer released...
...Packers' defensive captain is small (6 ft. 3 in., 245 Ibs.), as defensive ends go, but what he lacks in size he more than makes up in speed and an uncanny ability to read opponents' moves. "Willie is so quick," marvels Pittsburgh's defensive coach, LaVern Torgeson, "that he's on the blocker before he can get set. And when he makes a mistake he's one of the few players who can recover in time to make the tackle...
...subconsciously, Lavern Roach seemed to know what was happening. "Damn it," he said, "my luck is running out." Then he lapsed into a coma. Fourteen hours later, in nearby St. Clare's Hospital, Lavern Roach, 24, died* of a brain hemorrhage...
...even in Plainview Lavern Roach still heard the roar of the crowd and the money-jingling song of the promoters. Last week, after three tune-up fights along the comeback trail, Middleweight (159½ Ibs.) Roach shuffled his feet in the rosin box at Manhattan's St. Nicholas Arena and waited for the bell. The memory of what "Cerdan did to him had apparently faded; he insisted that he felt as strong and fast as ever...