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Newscopy: DISAPPOINTMENT FADES for delegates to the National Baptist convention, U. S. A., Inc., as Mahalia Jackson steps up to the microphone during the pre-convention concert at Civic Auditorium last night. Earlier it had been announced Miss Jackson, the nation's best known spiritual singer, would be unable to appear on the program because of a tooth extraction. Formal sessions of the 79th annual convention got under way today at the Auditorium.