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White musicians who started playing jazz included Papa Jack Laine, Sharkey Bonano and Nick LaRocca.
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When sheet music began appearing, LaRocca halted its sale with an injunction, and a lawsuit followed.
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LaRocca, Vice President, Health Care Delivery and Policy Research, of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
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"It's a staggering problem for our industry, " says Joseph LaRocca, the NRF's vice president for loss prevention.
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Doubts were raised about LaRocca's own originality as well as the practicality of trying to copyright a blues.
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But the apartment upstairs was the home of the batter, Frank Venezia (Vince LaRocca was his uncle, too).
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And now that Frank's dad had died (eating bad clams), Vince LaRocca was trying to marry Frank's mamma.
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Take LaRocca's Corner, up on Columbus: the building was owned by an uncle of the pitcher, Ciccio LaRocca.
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"There's no way I could have made it without him, " Jenny Larocca said.
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Instead, a white band called the Original Dixieland Jass Band, led by LaRocca, recorded with the Victor Talking Machine Company in 1917.
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"These guys are getting smarter and stealing more, " LaRocca says, noting that a full 81% of U.S. retailers told the NRF they have been victims of Organized Retail Crime.
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Among the passengers arriving in Galveston, Texas, were Tony and Jenny Larocca of Lake Charles, Louisiana, on their first trip away from the kids -- a cruise that the husband got his wife for Christmas.
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Ciccio LaRocca on the mound.
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