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[[Image]] [[Caption]] Earl "Fatha" Hines set a style which many jazz pianists copied. [[/Caption]] Earl "Fatha" Hines Dies of Heart Attack in Calif. Jazz great Earl "Fatha" Hines died recently of a heart attack in an Oakland, Calif., hospital at age 77. Hines was one of the world's most celebrated jazz pianist composers and bandleaders "wh Friends, Business Leaders Eulogize T.M. Alexander Jr. In Atlanta Memorial Rites [[Image]] [[Caption]] T.M. Alexander Jr. [[/caption]] Memorial services for Atlanta businessman Theodore Martin Alexander Jr., were held in the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College, with a crossection of the nations' le in attendance. The 50 Vice President parently Stanley de Passe, Bottle and Cork founder, dies Stanley Arthur de Passe, husband of Jean de Passe and father of Suzanne de Passe, president of Motown Productions, died, last Thursday, Sept. 8, in New York Hosptial after a long illness. He was 78. De Passe was one of the founding members of the Bottle & Cork Sales Club. Up to the time of [[Image]] [[Caption]] De Passe [[/Caption]] Noted Harlem Photographer Is Dead By C. GERALD FRASER James Van Der Zee, the photographer whose pictures chronicled the life of Harlem for half a century, died yesterday at the age of 96. Though he began his Harlem career when he was in his 20's he did not receive public acclaim... years old, when his... featured in an exhibiti ... politan Museum of Art... After that exhibitio...in 1969, Mr. V... ers, athletes, ministers, and business leaders who lived in Har... This group included...Countee Cullen, Jack...Wills, "Kid" Chocolate...Morton, Sam Langford... gles) Robinson, Hazel...Clayton Powell Sr. and...Divine, Dad Leroy Chase, 60; retired deputy police superintendent in Boston DENNIS PORT- Former deputy superintendent Leroy B. Chase, 60, who became one of the highest...nking blacks in the Boston Police...ment, before his retirement...Friday in his home...lness. ...Rouge, La. [[Image]] Muddy Waters, Blues Performer, Dies By ROBERT PALMER Muddy Waters, who played a key role in the development of electric blues and...ll and was the greatest con-... He was a great singer of Americ...nacular music, a vocal artist o...ishing power, range, depth, and...ty. Among musicians and sin...remarkable sense of timing,...of inflection and pitch...bulary of vocal s...m the purest fa...ning rasps, wer...s of conversatio...duplicate many...ues on electric g...der to make the...a quivering, voi... ...s sounded simpl...rooted in the tra...Delta that othe...found it almost...convincingly. "I...asy to do,...d in a l...ues is th...ay." ...Mississ...ddy v... ...to try to make commercial...he moved to Chi-...an...nd,...ar,...aby...was...king...e re-... d for... ng ca-... ed by... Chess... as its ...Muddy...mber of...record...ep South...with large...like Chi-... ...orded and...included...ust Make...e,""Man-...Blues." His... Leroy Brazier Chase, Jr., beloved husband of Dorothy L. (Chin) Chase, died Friday, December 30th, of cardiac arrest at the age of 60 years . Deputy Superintendent Leroy B. Chase was retired from the Boston Police Department in 1976, as Deputy Superintendent. During the racial turmoil of the 60's he commanded districts 2 and 3. He joined the Boston Police Department in 1951, and rose to the Civil Service Rank of Lieutenant. He Served in the Mattapan area as a Rookie Police Officer, and in district 4 as a Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Tactical Patrol. George R. Shivery, a retired social worker formerly employed in a New York State agency as an administrative executive died May 17th at New York University Hospital after an illness of 6 months. Mrs. Lucille Lippman Lived in Oak Bluffs Mrs. Lucille Pitkin Lippman of Tuckernuck avenue, Oak Bluffs, died on Nov. 2 at the Martha's Vineyard Hospital after a long illness. She was 80 years old. Mrs. Lippman, daughter of Conrad and Selena Palmer Pitkin, was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She is survived by two sons, Courtney Lippman of Oak Bluffs and Romeyn Lippman of New York city; a daughter, Emily Robertson of Chestnut Hill; a cousin, Marion Hensley of New Rochelle, N.Y.; two grandchildren and one great-grandchild. A graveside service will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Oak Grove Cemetery in Oak Bluffs with the Very Rev. Francis B. Sayre Jr. officiating. The Sylvia Funeral Home in Vineyard Haven is in charge of the arrangements. 422
